
How to Make a Spaceship
Afterword by Professor Stephen Hawking
The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflight
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 commerc...
Afterword by Professor Stephen Hawking
The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflight
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 commerc...