Moon landings and space walks once captivated the public’s attention. But, in recent decades, the U.S. space enterprise has waned. Now, that’s finally about to change. The award-winning Washington Post writer Christian Davenport chronicles the mad scramble to shape humanity’s off-planet future. He takes us behind the scenes at NASA and the Pentagon as China’s aggressive moon mining plans raise alarms, onto the sprawling Cape Canaveral factory where Blue Origin is working toward Amazon-style lunar deliveries, and onto SpaceX launch pads as Musk’s engineers log 100-hour weeks. Davenport offers a riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of the grit-fueled global battle to push humankind further into the cosmos — revealing that the science fiction dreams of the last century may soon become our reality.

A book signing will follow this event.

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