How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Space Flight by Julian Guthrie

How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Space Flight

Julian Guthrie

607 pages • first pub 2016 (view editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous slow-paced
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The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflightAlone 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 pilo...

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