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020			_a9780593078280 (hardback)
020			_a9780593078297 (paperback)
020			_z9780698405851 _qebook
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050			_aTL794.7 G984H 2016
100	1		_aGuthrie, Julian
245	1	0	_aHow to make a spaceship : _ba band of renegades, an epic race, and the birth of private space flight / _cJulian Guthrie ; foreword by Sir Richard Branson ; afterword by Professor Stephen Hawking
264		1	_aNew York : _bPenguin Press, _c2016
264		4	_c2016
300			_axiv, 432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aThe infinite corridor -- Unruly -- Early regrets -- Pete in space -- Mojave magic -- Space medicine -- Being a Lindbergh -- A career in orbit -- Struggles in the real world -- Meeting the magician -- An out-of-this-world idea -- The art of the impossible -- Eyes on the prize -- Cowboy pilot -- History repeats itself -- The space derby -- Epiphanies in the Mojave -- Peter's pitches -- A Lindbergh sculpts a dream -- Peter blasts off -- Elon's inspiration -- Burt and Paul's big adventure -- A lifeline for the XPRIZE -- A display of hardware -- Another Lindbergh takes flight -- A hole in one -- A race to remember -- A fire to be ignited -- The test of a lifetime -- Flirting with calamity -- Power struggles -- In pursuit of a masterpiece -- One for the money -- Rocketing to redemption -- Hallowed company -- Where are they now?.
520			_a"Alone in a spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty 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, Peter Diamandis's singular goal was to get to space. When he realized NASA was winding down manned spaceflight, 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 spaceflight 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 made Lindbergh the most famous man on Earth and galvanized the airline industry. Why, Diamandis thought, couldn't the same be done for spaceflight? The story of the bullet-shaped SpaceShipOne and of the other teams in the hunt for a $10 million prize [XPRIZE] 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 and a new age."--Dust jacket.
500			_aIncludes index.
610	2	0	_aSpaceShipOne (Spacecraft)
600	1	0	_aDiamandis, Peter H.
650		0	_aSpace vehicles
650		0	_aSpace tourism
651		0	_aOuter space _xCivilian use
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