Financing the New Space Industry
Breaking Free of Gravity and Government Support
Authors: McCurdy, Howard E.
Free Preview- Compares new space investment strategies to earlier ambitious projects from the history of transportation
- Examines the challenges of attracting financial support from an appropriate mix of traditional investors, government agencies, and motivated individuals
- Appeals to scholars, students, and practitioners interested in space exploration, the history of science and technology, entrepreneurship and innovation, astronautics, finance, and public-private partnerships
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- About this book
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This Palgrave Pivot investigates the efforts of five aerospace companies—SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Orbital Sciences, and the Boeing Company—to launch their entry into the field of commercial space transportation. Can private sector firms raise enough capital to end the usual dependence on government funding? What can historical examples of other large-scale transportation initiatives, such as the first transcontinental railway and the first commercial jetliner, teach us about the prospects of commercial space flight? As Howard E. McCurdy shows, commercializing space is a great experiment, the outcome of which will depend on whether new space entrepreneurs can attract support from a variety of traditional and nontraditional sources.
- About the authors
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Howard E. McCurdy is Professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction: The View from the Mezzanine in Kent, Washington
Pages 1-7
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The Dream of Commercial Space Flight
Pages 9-12
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Financing Privately Developed Transportation Schemes: Precedents from the First Transcontinental Railroad
Pages 13-26
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How Corporate Executives Approach Business Decisions: Financial Planning for the Boeing 707 Jetliner
Pages 27-32
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Five Case Studies
Pages 33-36
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Financing the New Space Industry
- Book Subtitle
- Breaking Free of Gravity and Government Support
- Authors
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- Howard E. McCurdy
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-32292-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-32292-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-32291-5
- Series ISSN
- 2730-972X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 122
- Number of Illustrations
- 6 illustrations in colour
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