PDF-(BOOK)-How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private

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 worlds 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 worlds largest governments had done before had been dismissed as fantastical The tale begins in Mount Vernon NY Diamandis was the son of hard working Greek immigrants who wanted their science prodigy to do the family proud and become a doctor Peter was a dutiful son but from the time he was eight years old staying up late to watch Apollo 11 land on the moon he had one goal getting to space He started a national student space club while at MIT He launched a rocket company in Houston while getting a medical degree from Harvard a degree he pursued to improve his chances of becoming an astronaut But when he realized NASA was winding down manned space flight Diamandis set out on one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time If the government wouldnt send him to space he would create a private spaceflight industry and get there himselfIn the 1990s the idea of private space flight was the stuff of science fiction The undaunted Diamandis found inspiration in an unlikely place the first golden age of aviation Reading Charles Lindberghs The Spirit of St Louis Diamandis was stunned that the aviator had attempted the first transatlantic flight from New York to Paris to win a 25000 prize The historic flight galvanized the commercial airline industry Why Diamandis thought couldnt a similar contest be held for space flight In 1996 standing under the arch of St Louis the city where Lindbergh found his backers Diamandis announced the 10 million Xprize To win a privately funded team would have to build and fly a manned rocket into space twice in two weeks The deadline December 31 2004   On a brilliant morning in the Mojave Desert with little time to spare a bulletshaped rocket called SpaceShipOne was launched The story of SS1 and other scrappy teams in the hunt all spurred by Diamandis as he struggled to keep the prize afloat became a testament to the American spirit of ingenuity and oversized dreams The winning of the Xprize marked the end of the governments monopoly over space   Julian Guthrie author of The Billionaire and The Mechanic an acclaimed bestselling account of Oracle CEO Larry Ellisons pursuit of the Americas Cup thought she knew about obsessive pursuits but the XPrize race spurred another level of drama sacrifice and technical wizardry With Diamandis cooperation Guthrie had access to all of the players from Richard Branson and John Carmack to Burt Rutan and has melded their stories into a spellbinding narrative a combination of Rocket Boys and The New New Thing In the end as Diamandis dreamed the result wasnt just a victory for one team it was the foundation for a new industry including SpaceX Virgin Galactic Blue Origin and others Today SpaceShipOne hangs in the Smithsonians Air and Space Museum above the Apollo 11 capsule and next to Lindberghs Spirit of St Louis plane. 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