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ROCKET DREAMS: INSIDE THE NEW SPACE RACE (CSIS), Sept 26, 2025, DC/virtual, 12:00-1:30 pm ET
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will host a discussion of the new book “Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race” with its author, Washington Post reporter Christian Davenport, on September 26, 2025 from 12:00-1:00 pm ET at its offices at 1616 Rhode Island Ave, NW, Washington, DC.
The discussion will conclude with a book signing and reception.
The event also will be webcast on CSIS’s website.
Joining Davenport and Kari Bingen, Director of CSIS’s Aerospace Security Project, are Scott Pace and Chirag Parikh. Pace was Executive Secretary of the White House National Space Council in the first Trump term. Parikh had that job in the Biden Administration.
More information is on the event’s website, which says:
Please join the CSIS Aerospace Security Project on Friday, September 26, at 12:00 p.m. for a conversation with Christian Davenport on his latest book, Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race. The program will begin with a fireside chat between Kari A. Bingen, Director of the Aerospace Security Project and Senior Fellow with the Defense and Security Department, and Christian Davenport, staff writer at The Washington Post.
They will be joined by Dr. Scott Pace, Director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, and former Deputy Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary of the National Space Council, and Chirag Parikh, President, Indutara Space LLC, and former Deputy Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary of the National Space Council, both of whom played pivotal roles in the events chronicled in the book. Together, the panel will discuss the rivalries and alliances shaping the New Space Age, including lunar exploration, private sector innovation, and the strategic implications of international competition. The event will conclude with a book signing and reception.