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Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age

Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age

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  • Create Date：2022-06-23 03:19:38
  • Update Date：2025-09-07
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  • Author：Lori Garver
  • ISBN：B09V6TY4V1
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Reviews

Timo ，

While I’ve followed NASA’s strange focus on SLS， and disregard for commercial launch prociders， I couldn’t have imagined how tough a fight it’s been to get NASA change to even as much as it’s changed to date。 NASA doesn’t come off well in this telling。 While a lot of the attitudes have been gleaned from the outside， it’s a different thing to read a first hand account。

Pradipta ，

Incredible story of how Lori became a super important figure in the history of human spaceflight。

Lydia ，

I feel really conflicted about this book。 On the one hand， it’s an interesting look into the problems that kept NASA from advancing human space flight by highlighting Congressional interference to support their constituents and major aerospace industry donors。 On the other hand， it mostly read as an ad hoc justification for actions taken by someone with an axe to grind。 And yes， SpaceX has made tremendous contributions to advancing space flight， but I really wish this book had less praise for El I feel really conflicted about this book。 On the one hand， it’s an interesting look into the problems that kept NASA from advancing human space flight by highlighting Congressional interference to support their constituents and major aerospace industry donors。 On the other hand， it mostly read as an ad hoc justification for actions taken by someone with an axe to grind。 And yes， SpaceX has made tremendous contributions to advancing space flight， but I really wish this book had less praise for Elon Musk in it and was overall less of the argument that the future of space travel can only be achieved through the involvement of the super rich astronaut-wannabe billionaires。 Especially given Elon Musk’s stupid and highly disruptive （in the sense of causing actual problems， not the trendy Silicon Valley sense） shiny satellite project。Full disclosure: I was given an advanced copy for review。 。。。more