Liftoff

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"A colorful page-turner." ―Walter Isaacson, *New York Times Book Review*
"As important a book on space as has ever been written." ―Homer Hickam, #1 *New York Times* bestselling author of *Rocket Boys*

*Liftoff* by Eric Berger delivers the dramatic, inside story of SpaceX's tumultuous early years. Drawing on unparalleled journalistic access and exclusive interviews, including with Elon Musk, Berger charts the high-stakes engineering and formidable challenges behind the company's first four Falcon 1 rocket launches. This definitive account reveals how a scrappy startup, driven by an audacious vision, navigated near-failure to become the world's leading private aerospace pioneer, revolutionizing reusable rockets and launching humans into orbit. It is the definitive tech biography of a cosmic rise.