The historic quest to rekindle the human being exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their huge fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier

The Space Barons is the tale of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection from the American space program. Nearly a half-century after Neil Armstrong walked around the moon, these Space Barons-most notably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, along with Richard Branson about THE AREA Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, as well as the Search to Colonize the Cosmos and Paul Allen-are using Silicon Valley-style technology to significantly lower the expense of space travel, and send out humans even more than NASA has gone. These entrepreneurs have got founded some of the biggest brands in the world-Amazon, Microsoft, Virgin, Tesla, PayPal-and upended industry after market. Now they may be pursuing the largest disruption of all: space.

Based on many years of confirming and exclusive interviews with all four billionaires, this authoritative account is usually a dramatic tale of risk and high adventure, the birth of a new Space Age, fueled by some of the world’s richest men because they battle to end governments’ monopoly for the cosmos. THE AREA Barons is also a story of rivalry-hard-charging startups warring with founded contractors, and the personal clashes of the leaders of the new space motion, especially Musk and Bezos, as they aim for the moon and Mars and beyond.