Took me forever to get through this thing, and a lot of what's in here has become outdated since (to say nothing of the extent to which this plays out as somewhat blindly celebratory of Musk and Bezos in particular), but it's a fascinating look into what goes into modern space exploration, and how far we still have to go to get back to exploring the cosmos as we should.

Bureaucracy ruins everything, sure, but it's hard to argue that something as dangerous as space travel doesn't benefit from such obnoxious attention to detail.