Books

Books about the space industry

1 books tracked

Reading on New Space, commercial spaceflight and the economics of getting to orbit.

New Space Capitalism: The Entrepreneurial Path to the Stars

Rainer Zitelmann · Skyhorse Publishing, 2026 · 304 pages

Argues that private enterprise, not government programs, will drive the next phase of space expansion. Zitelmann contends the technology for goals like Mars colonization and asteroid mining already exists, and that the real bottleneck is legal — establishing property rights and market frameworks for owning and trading extraterrestrial land and resources. Foreword by Newt Gingrich.