Author: Tim Fernholz

Tim Fernholz reports on technology, business, and the global economy as a journalist. Rocket Billionaires traces the development of the commercial space industry through the competition among entrepreneurs, engineers, government agencies, and established aerospace companies. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published the book under the fuller title Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race. Fernholz explains how SpaceX and Blue Origin pursued reusable launch systems while public contracts and changing policy helped reshape access to orbit. His reporting connects corporate strategy with the technical demands of rockets, the economics of launch services, and the longer history of publicly funded spaceflight. The result places two prominent founders inside a wider account of the institutions and teams behind the modern space business.