How to Make a Spaceship

When he watched Apollo 11 land on the Moon, aged eight, Diamandis's goal was to get to space. When he realized NASA was winding down manned space flight, he set out to create a private space flight industry himself. The story of the bullet-shaped SpaceShipOne, and the other teams in the hunt for a $10 million prize is an extraordinary tale of making the impossible possible. With afterword by Stephen Hawking.