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How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race and the Birth of Private Space Flight
Julian Guthrie
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Description for How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race and the Birth of Private Space Flight
Paperback. From the age of eight, when he watched Apollo 11 land on the Moon, Peter Diamandis's singular goal was to get to space. When he realized NASA was winding down manned space flight, he set out on one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; TBY; TTD; WNX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 127. .
Afterword by Professor Stephen Hawking Reads like a thriller - and reveals many secrets... one of the great entrepreneurial stories of our time (Washington Post) From the age of eight, when he watched Apollo 11 land on the Moon, Peter Diamandis's singular goal was to get to space. When he realized NASA was winding down manned space flight, he set out on one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time. If the government wouldn't send him to space, he would create a private space flight industry himself. ... Read more
Afterword by Professor Stephen Hawking Reads like a thriller - and reveals many secrets... one of the great entrepreneurial stories of our time (Washington Post) From the age of eight, when he watched Apollo 11 land on the Moon, Peter Diamandis's singular goal was to get to space. When he realized NASA was winding down manned space flight, he set out on one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time. If the government wouldn't send him to space, he would create a private space flight industry himself. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784162375
SKU
V9781784162375
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3
About Julian Guthrie
Julian Guthrie is an award-winning journalist who spent 20 years at the San Francisco Chronicle and has been published by The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and others. Her most recent book is The Billionaire and the Mechanic, a bestselling 2014 account of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's pursuit of the America's Cup.
Reviews for How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race and the Birth of Private Space Flight
Hugely readable ... the story of how the prize was won is astonishing
Mail on Sunday
Reads like a thriller - and reveals many secrets... one of the great entrepreneurial stories of our time
Washington Post
If you admire those who aim really high, How to Make a Spaceship belongs on ... Read more
Mail on Sunday
Reads like a thriller - and reveals many secrets... one of the great entrepreneurial stories of our time
Washington Post
If you admire those who aim really high, How to Make a Spaceship belongs on ... Read more