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Afterword by Professor Stephen HawkingThe historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflightAlone in a spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space.
'It didn't matter that they were now three miles beyond their target site, that communications were dropping out and that they were running low on fuel.
