SEATTLE, Sept. 10, 2025—On Oct. 1 the Museum presents a provocative book talk with award-winning Washington Post space reporter Christian Davenport and GeekWire science writer Alan Boyle. The two acclaimed space industry experts will discuss Davenport’s new book on sale Sept. 16, Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race. Davenport drew on years of reporting and interviews with more than a hundred sources including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and several of his top executives at Blue Origin to chronicle this mad scramble to shape humanity’s off-planet future.
An evening of space stories with Davenport and Boyle promises to be a rare peek into the real power behind a rocket launch. The program begins at 7 p.m. with “pay what you can” ticket options of $15, $25, $50 and $100.
“Rocket Dreams brings readers into the board rooms and onto the private jets of the key people who brought about a spaceflight revolution over the last decade. Richly reported, it tells the essential story of how a few NASA leaders and two billionaires pushed the government to change the way humans access space forever.”—Eric Berger, author of Liftoff and Reentry.
Christian Davenport
Christian Davenport is a staff writer at The Washington Post covering NASA and the space industry and the author of The Space Barons. He has been on reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize three times and is a recipient of an Emmy award for his work on the Discovery and Science Channels covering SpaceX’s first human spaceflight mission.
Alan Boyle
Mastermind of Cosmic Log, contributor to GeekWire and Universe Today, author of The Case for Pluto: How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference, past president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.
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