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Title: How to Make a Spaceship
Subtitle: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race and the Birth of Private Space Flight
Author: Julian Guthrie
Narrator: Richard Branson, Robert Shapiro
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-22-16
Publisher: Random House AudioBooks
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy
Publisher's Summary:
Afterword by Professor Stephen Hawking.
The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflight.
Alone in a Spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had 80 seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did he would make history as the world's first commercial astronaut.
The spectacle defied reason, the result of a competition dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space required small teams to do what only the world's largest governments had done before.
From the age of eight, when he watched Apollo 11 land on the moon, Diamandis' 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 had made his transatlantic flight to win a $25,000 prize. The flight had 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.
