How to make a spaceship : a band of renegades, an epic race, and the birth of 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. He might not make it back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world's first co...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- 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?.