Eric Berger is the senior space editor at Ars Technica, covering everything from new space to NASA policy. Eric has an astronomy degree from the University of Texas and a master's in journalism from the University of Missouri. He previously worked at the Houston Chronicle for 17 years, where the paper was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2009 for his coverage of Hurricane Ike. A certified meteorologist, Eric founded Space City Weather and lives in Houston.
‘Berger vividly weaves a tale of technology development at its most
heroic …The result is a rousing—and hopeful—saga of hard-won
innovation succeeding on an epic scale.’
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STARRED REVIEW ‘Berger writes with the kind of
hard-won insider authority that only comes through covering the
nuts and bolts of the commercial space industry for the past twenty
years’ FORBES ‘Eric Berger does a fine job of telling the
white-knuckle story of how SpaceX was created in 2002 and came
close to collapse several times. Although Liftoff recounts the
experiences of many of SpaceX’s brilliant engineers, the
near-maniacal Musk is almost at the heart of the story.’ FINANCIAL
TIMES ‘Eric Berger's book uses unparalleled access to Musk and all
of SpaceX's early staff to place the reader right among them. It is
written with verve and polish to keep you turning the pages.’
SPECTATOR ‘The compelling story of how Elon Musk’s relentless quest
to get humans to Marks helped SpaceX succeed against the odds makes
great reading’ NEW SCIENTIST “This is a book that will hold your
rapt attention from start to finish.” — CHARLES BOLDEN, Former NASA
Administrator and Four-Time Astronaut ‘The elegant brilliance of
the engineering that allows today’s space rockets to land
themselves back on earth – or at sea – right way up, and on target
to the inch, is all the doing of the teams assembled by Elon Musk –
and the story of how he did it, and how for sure he will get us to
Mars whether we like it or not, is told in appropriately stellar
fashion by Eric Berger in a book that held me captive, in earth
orbit, from prologue to epilogue, countdown to splashdown.’
—SIMON WINCHESTER
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