In Open Space, journalist and space industry analyst David Ariosto gives us a front-row seat to the future.
The book bills itself as “a front-row seat to the future,” with “unprecedented access.”
Ariosto has certainly interviewed many people for this book and visited some interesting places.
Ariosto lays out the state of the space industry and makes it clear it is very much an industry, still political as ever, but much more about corporations than nations — even though nations are still a huge factor.
It is also a deep dive into what the space industry could become as Ariosto explores the many, many opportunities for the rich to get richer off of exploring the resources of the solar systems.
The book is exploration of how the fantastic, the fictional, and the extraordinary become mundane and ordinary as rules and regulations as well as shareholder reports and internal memos become a part of the realm of space exploration.
His book presents engineering as a font of miracles setting us on a predestined track to the stars.
