Rocket Dreams: A Conversation with Christian Davenport & Jim Bridenstine

Schedule

Sat Sep 20 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

3624 N 74th East Ave, Tulsa, OK, United States, Oklahoma 74115 | Tulsa, OK

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Join us at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum on Saturday, September 20th from 2–4 PM for a captivating conversation and book signing featuring Christian Davenport, acclaimed Washington Post reporter and author of Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race.
Christian will be joined by the Honorable Jim Bridenstine, former U.S. Congressman for Oklahoma’s 1st District, the 13th NASA Administrator, and former Executive Director of the Tulsa Air and Space Museum, for an engaging conversation on the rapidly evolving future of space exploration—from private sector rivalries to geopolitical moon races.
Rocket Dreams offers a riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of the grit-fueled global battle to push humankind further into the cosmos—revealing that the science fiction dreams of the last century may soon become our reality.
Included with regular museum admission
Tulsa Air and Space Museum | 3624 N. 74th East Ave., Tulsa, OK
Don’t miss this exciting afternoon at the intersection of journalism, science, and the space frontier!
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