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Julian Guthrie

How to Make a Spaceship

A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight

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A New York Times bestseller! The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflightA Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award 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 commercial astronaut. The spectacle defied reason, the result of a competition dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space required small teams to do what only th… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Branson, Richard / Hawking, Stephen
  • ISBN: 978-1-59420-672-6
  • EAN: 9781594206726
  • Produktnummer: 19705309
  • Verlag: Penguin Putnam
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 448 S.
  • Masse: 567 g
  • Gewicht: 567

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Julian Guthrie is an award-winning journalist who spent twenty years at the San Francisco Chronicle and has been published by The Wall Street Journal, Time, The Huffington Post, and others. She is the author of The Billionaire and the Mechanic, a bestselling account of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s pursuit of the America’s Cup, and of The Grace of Everyday Saints, the story of the longest parish protest in Catholic America.

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