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How to Make a Spaceship
AuthorJulian Guthrie
Audio read byRob Shapiro
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSpaceflight
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherPenguin Books, Random House
Publication date
September 2016
Publication placeUSA
Media type
  • Hardcover
  • Softcover trade paperback
  • CD audiobook
  • Digital-file audiobook
  • Digital-file e-book
Pages448
ISBN978-1101980491
OCLC1011116852
WebsiteHow to Make a Spaceship

How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, An Epic Race, And the Birth of Private Spaceflight (ISBN 978-1594206726) is a bestselling 2016 non-fiction book by journalist Julian Guthrie about the origins of the X Prize Foundation and Peter Diamandis, the first X Prize, the Ansari X Prize and Anousheh Ansari, the entrants into that suborbital spaceflight competition, and the winning team, Mojave Aerospace Ventures of Vulcan Inc., Paul G. Allen, Scaled Composites, Burt Rutan, and their platform of Tier One of SpaceShipOne and WhiteKnightOne.[1][2][3][4][5]

Synopsis

The book is an overview of what lead to the creation of the X Prize, and the running of that first X Prize. Profiles of all the major players in the X Prize saga are included in the book. It chronologically starts with the influences that weighed upon Peter Diamandis, and his progression into the space industry. It also covers the process to get funding, rejections, and the arrival of the Ansaris, becoming title sponsors. The book surveys several of the teams that entered into the competition to win the Ansari X Prize. The team that is focused on most is that which won the X Prize in 2004, the one headed by Paul Allen and Burt Rutan, of SpaceShipOne. The book ends with an epilogue about Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic scooping up the SpaceShipOne technology, and the spaceplane itself ending up in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The book includes a preface by Richard Branson, and an afterword by Stephen Hawking.[6][5][7][8][9][10]

Publication

"How to Make a Sapceship" was released in September 2016, in trade paperback, hardcover, audio book and e-book formats.[1] The work was a finalist for a PEN Award, the 2017 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.[11][12][13] It became a New York Times listed bestseller.[2] The book has appeared on several "Best Of" book lists.[11] Several parties have expressed interest in obtaining the filming rights to the book.[14]

Bibliography

  • Julian Guthrie (2016). How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0698405851. [3]

Further reading

References

  1. ^ a b "How to Make a Spaceship". Penguin Books Random House. 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Science - Best Sellers - November 2016". New York Times. 13 November 2016.
  3. ^ a b Julian Guthrie (2016). How to Make a Spaceship. Penguin Books.
  4. ^ Julian Guthrie (20 September 2016). "How Charles Lindbergh Inspired Private Spaceflight". Time Magazine. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  5. ^ a b Robert Schaefer. "How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight". New York Journal of Books.
  6. ^ Jeff Foust (3 October 2016). "Review: How to Make a Spaceship". The Space Review. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  7. ^ Ben Kieffer; Katherine Perkins; (6 September 2017). "How to Make a Spaceship". IPR. Iowa Public Radio.{{cite episode}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Zulfikar Abbany (8 December 2016). "How to make a spaceship and get 'off planet' with renegades and college-dropouts". Deutsche Welle.
  9. ^ Vivek Wadhwa (19 September 2016). "The renegade whose dream started the latest space race". Washington Post.
  10. ^ Tom Zoellner (6 October 2016). "'How to Make a Spaceship,' by Julian Guthrie". SFGate.
  11. ^ a b Anita Busch (25 July 2017). "Julian Guthrie Book 'Alpha Girls' Gets Scooped Up By Welle Entertainment After Bidding War". Deadline.com.
  12. ^ "2017 PEN/E. O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD". PEN America. 2017.
  13. ^ "2017 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalists Announced". E.O. Wilson Foundation. 20 January 2017.
  14. ^ "Come on Hollywood, Give Us an X Prize Movie Already". Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy. Episode 221. Wired Magazine. 16 September 2016.

See also

[[ CATEGORY: Ansari X Prize ]] [[ CATEGORY: Spaceflight books ]] [[ CATEGORY: Engineering books ]] [[ CATEGORY: American non-fiction books ]] [[ CATEGORY: 2016 non-fiction books ]] 

[[CATEGORY: Ansari X Prize]]
[[CATEGORY: Spaceflight books]]
[[CATEGORY: Engineering books]]
[[CATEGORY: American non-fiction books]]
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