![]() ![]() Prolific audiobook narrator Rob Shapiro's masterly, steady-paced reading will maintain listener interest in the dramatic, suspenseful stories of the competitors. The book also features behind-the-scenes peeks at the international team participants, as well as Tier One Project's ultimate victorious bullet-shaped spaceplane, dubbed "SpaceShipOne." The challenge has led to other similar efforts, and the visionaries behind these achievements are recognized here. PRODUCT DETAILS Title: (ebook) How to Make a Spaceship Author: Julian Guthrie, Sir Richard Branson Publisher: Transworld ISBN: 9781473542372 Languages. Diamandis found the money for the $100,000 cash award and, with the help of astronauts, engineers, and other experts, devised the rules for the prize and got the competition airborne. ![]() Enter the Ansari X Prize, the brainchild of engineer, physician, and entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, who was in love with space travel from boyhood. Guthrie (The Billionaire and the Mechanic The Grace of Everyday Saints) shares the story behind the story of creating a privately built manned spacecraft that could break the sound barrier, once the federal government announced that it was getting out of that business. ![]()
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