Derek Webber has been a prime mover in the original traditional space commerce businesses of launch services and satellite communications, and also in the emerging phase of private commercial space flight, which he believes will lead to full commercial space exploration and exploitation. He is currently furthering this idea, initially through supporting commercial development on the Moon, by serving as an international judge of the Google Lunar XPRIZE. In this book, he provides a compendium of "lessons learned" from his 50 years of experience, and includes not only a trove of commercial space data, but behind-the-scenes insights into multi-million dollar satellite negotiations, including fascinating international perspectives of developments during the ending of the Cold War. He takes us through the difficult transition stage as "new space" began to question the way in which "old space" had been operating for four decades, thereby bringing hope of a growth renaissance of space business. Webber, whose experience spans space engineering, marketing, procurement and finance, and is a former managing director of a satellite broadband operator, captures in these pages a record of the creation of all the commercial space businesses to date, and indicates the building blocks of the movement towards full commercial space exploration and exploitation. He outlines a way ahead, which circumscribes the limitations of government funding by using the newly emerging entrepreneurial space tourism businesses to drive the next stage of space developments. Book jacket.