If the book's message is that Space is cancelled, then something about it is clearly outdated. I'll still take a look into it because I am interested in any essay that covers race and space exploration. But I'm not seeing any counter arguments that says all this work that has gone into space programs is actually at risk of being lost. The only thing that may have changed was the trajectory of all these futuristic ideas may have been pushed back thanks to wasteful spending on unnecessary wars. But other significant discoveries have still been in the past decade like the 2021 landing of the Mars rover, or the first full color image of what Black Holes look like.