Illuminates our future and unveils the next big technology story of our time: welcome to the Wild West of aerospace engineering and its unprecedented impact on our lives.

Includes index.

Prologue: a shared hallucination -- The great computer in the sky. When doves fly ; Space force ; Welcome, Lord Vader ; The rainbow mansion ; Phoning home ; The birth of a planet ; The great computer in the sky -- The Peter Beck project. Big, if true ; A boy and his shed ; You just stick it between your legs and pray ; I expected more from you, America ; "You fucking beauty!" ; The military is not so bad ; Enter electron ; You've got our attention -- Ad astra. Let's make a lot of fucking rockets ; Chris Kemp on Chris Kemp, spring 2017 ; The grind ; Party like you mean it ; Your friendly neighborhood fog monster ; Not-so-stealth space ; Northern exposure ; Rocket 2 ; It's a job ; The reset button ; Cash on fire ; It makes sense, right? -- The maddest max. On passion ; God told me to do it ; Full attack ; These rockets: they're expensive ; Limits ; Flameout -- Epilogue.