Stephen Bayley

The billionaire’s toy box

Our own planet’s too limited for today’s billionaires. It’s space exploration that now galvanises them

issue 21 April 2018

  • The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and the Quest to Colonise the Cosmos

    Christian Davenport

    Public Affairs, pp. 308

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