How to Make a Spaceship

A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight

Author  Julian Guthrie Preface by  Richard Branson Afterword by  Stephen Hawking
How to Make a Spaceship

A New York Times bestseller! 

The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflight

Winner of the 2016 Eugene E. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature

A Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

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…

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