HOW TO MAKE A SPACESHIP : A BAND OF RENEGADES, AN EPIC RACE, AND THE BIRTH OF PRIVATE SPACELIGHT
How a historic race gave birth to private space flight 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. There was a chance he would not come back...
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| Format: | Book |
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London :
Bantam Press
2016
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| Summary: | How a historic race gave birth to private space flight
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. There was a chance he would not come back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world s first commercial astronaut. The spectacle defied reason, the result of an improbable contest dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space requiring small teams to do what only the world largest governments had done before had been dismissed as
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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780593078297 |