How to make a spaceship : a band of renegades, an epic race, and the birth of private space flight
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- ISBN: 1594206724
- ISBN: 9781594206726
- ISBN: 9780698405851
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xvi, 432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm - Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016
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General Note: | Includes index and Afterword by Stephen Hawking. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The 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? |
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