Space Odyssey: Risk, Rivalries, and the Next Giant Leap

An insider’s gripping look at the next stage of the space race. From the near-catastrophe of Boeing’s Starliner mission in 2024 to closed-door confrontations with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to high-stakes international diplomacy that may determine who returns to the Moon-and who reaches Mars first-Space Odyssey is a gripping insider’s account of the choices shaping humanity’s future beyond Earth.Bill Nelson-former U.S. senator, NASA Administrator, and astronaut-pulls back the curtain on the modern space race at the very moment it is being rewritten. Drawing on firsthand experience at the highest levels of government and spaceflight, Nelson takes readers inside the cockpit, the Situation Room, and the Administrator’s chair as NASA navigates a rapidly changing landscape.Once defined by superpower rivalry, space is now contested by private billionaires, rising nations, and competing visions of exploration itself.The United States faces a formidable challenger in China, unprecedented depende