--- product_id: 617799964 title: "Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age" price: "2111670₫" currency: VND in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.vn/products/617799964-reentry-spacex-elon-musk-and-the-reusable-rockets-that-launched store_origin: VN region: Vietnam --- # Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age **Price:** 2111670₫ **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age - **How much does it cost?** 2111670₫ with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vn](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/617799964-reentry-spacex-elon-musk-and-the-reusable-rockets-that-launched) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Buy Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age by Berger, Eric online on desertcart.ae at best prices. ✓ Fast and free shipping ✓ free returns ✓ cash on delivery available on eligible purchase. Review: Brilliantly written, well researched and entertaining to read. Review: In this second book on SpaceX, Berger’s focus is not so much on Elon Musk as on how the launch company developed and succeeded, with emphasis on its relationship with NASA. Berger’s prose is clear and crisp throughout the book. He knows his stuff, technically, and explains it in terms suitable for smart high schoolers on up. I didn’t see any errors in the technology sections, though I thought there were points that needed elaboration. The media narrative of SpaceX’s sometimes-difficult partnership with NASA is clarified here. NASA contracts, some of them awarded before the space agency could be certain the company could deliver, saved SpaceX from bankruptcy at least twice. Berger recounts incidents when SpaceX’s speed-first approach came back to take very expensive bites out of the company’s collective butt, also he also tells the lesser-known story of how accommodating NASA could be. NASA officials, especially Kathy Leuders, did everything possible to meld SpaceX’s way of doing things to NASA’s, maintaining the critical requirements and making re-interpretations or exceptions when warranted. SpaceX is most famous for making boosters reusable. Berger details how this wasn’t part of Musk’s original vision but was added as he and his people wrestled with long-term cost reduction. The investment cost of making a launcher reusable was not something NASA or DoD felt was worth dedicated funding. Berger writes the biggest NASA crisis came when SpaceX’s desire to “load and go” – to load the densified propellants once the astronauts were already in the Dragon to speed the process and lengthen the launch window – drew instant and near-universal negative response from NASA experts. It took dozens of safe uncrewed Falcon 9 flights and a mountain of studies and test results to get NASA to declare the concept safe. Berger explains how Musk’s greatest strength – his ability to lay out ever-grander visions and inspire people to work insane hours to make them come true – was also a weakness when dealing with NASA. Musk’s vision of a civilization on Mars was one thing: devoting SpaceX to two huge projects, the Starship vehicle to make Mars possible and the Starlink constellation to pay for it, while he had NASA work on contract, led to criticism because the company was behind on delivering the Dragon capsule for the Commercial Crew program. This after NASA Commercial Crew head Phil McAlister just barely convinced a skeptical committee that wanted to rely on Boeing that they should also give the newcomer a chance. Once Crew Dragon was flying, Musk had to sell NASA and DoD on his next vehicle, the Falcon Heavy. NASA declined to put a payload on the first flight of such a massive, innovative rocket, even for free, so Musk’s Tesla roadster went up instead. NASA was convinced, moving its Europa probe from SLS to FH at what Berger estimates was $2B in savings. The success of the NASA-SpaceX partnership helped the latter win the 2021 Artemis contract for the lunar lander. Now, Berger points out, NASA can only afford Artemis and other exploration programs because of the cost savings SpaceX provides for its non-SLS launches. The ever-dominant issue of cost will likely keep SpaceX’s leading position with NASA and military launches for a long time despite rivals like Blue Origin. Berger closes by musing on SpaceX’s indispensable strength and its biggest weakness – Musk. Musk is, to some American politicians, radioactive, and having the more diplomatic Gwynne Shotwell run SpaceX only goes so far. Musk’s image as a man singularly focused on moving humanity into the technological future and taking us to Mars was gone once he bought Twitter/X, which does none of those things and is enmeshed in a storm of controversy. The one thing Berger does not do is explore the details about how NASA/DoD and SpaceX work together on the front lines: he keeps it to the major players. The day-to-day workings of the partnership in the many locations they take place, between workers at low and mid levels, could at least have a chapter or two here. In summary, the story Berger tells about Space X and the government is one of sometimes-fractious partners who made it work. There’s no question the partnership will continue, for decades at least. It may even take us to Mars. Berger’s first-rate book is indispensable to anyone who wants to understand how that partnership was born and nurtured along with the technology to make it worth pursuing. A good photo section and an index round out the book. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #45,953 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #42 in Aerospace Engineering #86 in Science & Technology #211 in Transportation | | Customer reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (150) | | Dimensions | 15.24 x 3.56 x 22.86 cm | | Edition | Standard Edition | | ISBN-10 | 1637745273 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1637745274 | | Item weight | 1.05 Kilograms | | Language | English | | Print length | 400 pages | | Publication date | 24 September 2024 | | Publisher | BenBella Books | ## Images ![Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ZmpA7dXDL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by J***G on 7 February 2025* Brilliantly written, well researched and entertaining to read. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by M***E on 28 September 2024* In this second book on SpaceX, Berger’s focus is not so much on Elon Musk as on how the launch company developed and succeeded, with emphasis on its relationship with NASA. Berger’s prose is clear and crisp throughout the book. He knows his stuff, technically, and explains it in terms suitable for smart high schoolers on up. I didn’t see any errors in the technology sections, though I thought there were points that needed elaboration. The media narrative of SpaceX’s sometimes-difficult partnership with NASA is clarified here. NASA contracts, some of them awarded before the space agency could be certain the company could deliver, saved SpaceX from bankruptcy at least twice. Berger recounts incidents when SpaceX’s speed-first approach came back to take very expensive bites out of the company’s collective butt, also he also tells the lesser-known story of how accommodating NASA could be. NASA officials, especially Kathy Leuders, did everything possible to meld SpaceX’s way of doing things to NASA’s, maintaining the critical requirements and making re-interpretations or exceptions when warranted. SpaceX is most famous for making boosters reusable. Berger details how this wasn’t part of Musk’s original vision but was added as he and his people wrestled with long-term cost reduction. The investment cost of making a launcher reusable was not something NASA or DoD felt was worth dedicated funding. Berger writes the biggest NASA crisis came when SpaceX’s desire to “load and go” – to load the densified propellants once the astronauts were already in the Dragon to speed the process and lengthen the launch window – drew instant and near-universal negative response from NASA experts. It took dozens of safe uncrewed Falcon 9 flights and a mountain of studies and test results to get NASA to declare the concept safe. Berger explains how Musk’s greatest strength – his ability to lay out ever-grander visions and inspire people to work insane hours to make them come true – was also a weakness when dealing with NASA. Musk’s vision of a civilization on Mars was one thing: devoting SpaceX to two huge projects, the Starship vehicle to make Mars possible and the Starlink constellation to pay for it, while he had NASA work on contract, led to criticism because the company was behind on delivering the Dragon capsule for the Commercial Crew program. This after NASA Commercial Crew head Phil McAlister just barely convinced a skeptical committee that wanted to rely on Boeing that they should also give the newcomer a chance. Once Crew Dragon was flying, Musk had to sell NASA and DoD on his next vehicle, the Falcon Heavy. NASA declined to put a payload on the first flight of such a massive, innovative rocket, even for free, so Musk’s Tesla roadster went up instead. NASA was convinced, moving its Europa probe from SLS to FH at what Berger estimates was $2B in savings. The success of the NASA-SpaceX partnership helped the latter win the 2021 Artemis contract for the lunar lander. Now, Berger points out, NASA can only afford Artemis and other exploration programs because of the cost savings SpaceX provides for its non-SLS launches. The ever-dominant issue of cost will likely keep SpaceX’s leading position with NASA and military launches for a long time despite rivals like Blue Origin. Berger closes by musing on SpaceX’s indispensable strength and its biggest weakness – Musk. Musk is, to some American politicians, radioactive, and having the more diplomatic Gwynne Shotwell run SpaceX only goes so far. Musk’s image as a man singularly focused on moving humanity into the technological future and taking us to Mars was gone once he bought Twitter/X, which does none of those things and is enmeshed in a storm of controversy. The one thing Berger does not do is explore the details about how NASA/DoD and SpaceX work together on the front lines: he keeps it to the major players. The day-to-day workings of the partnership in the many locations they take place, between workers at low and mid levels, could at least have a chapter or two here. In summary, the story Berger tells about Space X and the government is one of sometimes-fractious partners who made it work. There’s no question the partnership will continue, for decades at least. It may even take us to Mars. Berger’s first-rate book is indispensable to anyone who wants to understand how that partnership was born and nurtured along with the technology to make it worth pursuing. A good photo section and an index round out the book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by F***H on 9 September 2025* O ponto alto do livro e ele focar mais nas pessoas envolvidas no desenvolvimento dos foguetes, com otimas historias. Sinceramente o livro se perde um pouco quando passa a falar de coisas depois dos anos 2020, ou quando comeca a misturar Starship no meio do livro. Acredito que uma separacao melhor, como foi feita no primeiro livro Liftoff, acaba deixando a historia melhor. Realmente so quando li esse livro que deu uma ideia melhor de comos F1 e F9 estava acontecendo quase simultaneamente. Mas por outro lado o Liftoff e um livro melhor por isso. ## Frequently Bought Together - Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age - Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX - Elon Musk --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vn/products/617799964-reentry-spacex-elon-musk-and-the-reusable-rockets-that-launched](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/617799964-reentry-spacex-elon-musk-and-the-reusable-rockets-that-launched) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vietnam* *Store origin: VN* *Last updated: 2026-05-19*