SpaceX's Dragon: America's Next Generation Spacecraft (Springer Praxis Books)

When I purchased this book, I was looking for a more in-depth look into the technical development of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft. What it turned out to be was a compilation of the high level design aspects and coverage of the other planned crew capsules in development.For almost half the book, the author covers the contracts involved and the first 7 SpaceX launches which resupplied the ISS. Each chapter covering a launch essentially just iterates the mission timeline (down to the second) and adds in a fair amount of editorializing with regards to SpaceX and NASA's involvement. Once this flow of the book was established, I shifted my perspective to treat it as a refresher for SpaceX's progress over the past few years. What you're left with is the feeling that the author skimmed the internet for the most accessible facts, wrote them into this quasi-article-essay and published it with minimal editorial review. Grammatical errors, an instance of a whole paragraph repeated, and a confusing balance between opinion and fact. So while this may be a refreshing reminder of who SpaceX is and what they're attempting to do (rockets & colonize Mars.), in my opinion the author fails to dive too deep into the actual details of the Dragon spacecraft before inserting his own opinion of why SpaceX is the clear leader when compared to the other contract contenders (Boeing, Sierra Nevada, NASA).Now I understand writing a book is no easy feat but as the title of this review suggests, spend the time you would reading this book, check out Wikipedia for SpaceX, CRS missions, Dragon etc. and your curiosity will be more than satisfied.

Very interesting and well documented

Once again, Erik Seedhouse has filled a gap in the books written on commercial spaceflight and written a detailed and engaging account of SpaceX's crew vehicle, the V2. This book includes a detailed account of the evolution of the design and development of the Dragon and also how the crewed vehicle will be used to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station and beyond. A great read and thoroughly recommended.

A brilliant professor that knows what he is doing. I would recommend this book to anyone that is interested in commercial aerospace.

WELL WRITEN WITH PICTURES OF SPACEX DRAGON. FIVE STAR RATING.

I was hoping to get in to detail about the development of the Dragon but that's quite light and restricted to a few paragraphs early on. The rest is basically just a log of its early missions.

A very interesting synopsis of Elon Musks baby and Space X overall