Take two high-profile billionaires, give them a vast new potential ‘market’ to conquer, and you are assured of having the mother of all business battles. That is exactly what is happening in outer space, where Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are squaring off against each other, watched with interest by NASA, the Chinese and others. It is this race for space that Christian Davenport covers in his latest bestseller, Rocket Dreams .

Two billionaires clash in space

Davenport is perhaps the ideal person to write the book. He has been covering NASA and the space industry for the Washington Post for quite a while now, and has been writing extensively about the Musk-Bezos rivalry in space. Rocket Dreams is his second book on the subject, the first being The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos,

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