How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of a Private Spaceflight

Name: How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of a Private Spaceflight
Author: Julian Guthrie
ISBN: 9781473542372

Julian Guthrie

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#3631 of 3,809 books · #547 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2017).

From the age of eight, when he watched Apollo 11 land on the Moon, Peter Diamandis's singular goal was to get to space. When he realized NASA was winding down manned space flight, he set out on one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time. If the government wouldn't send him to space, he would create a private space flight industry himself. In the 1990s, this idea was the stuff of science fiction. Undaunted, Diamandis found inspiration in the golden age of aviation. He discovered that Charles Lindbergh made his transatlantic flight to win a $25,000 prize. The flight made Lindbergh the most famous man on earth and galvanized the airline industry. Why, Diamandis thought, couldn't the same be done for space flight? The story of the bullet-shaped SpaceShipOne, and the other teams in the hunt for a $10 million prize is an extraordinary tale of making the impossible possible. In the end, as Diamandis dreamed, the result wasn't just a victory for one team; it was the foundation for a new industry.

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