How to Make a Spaceship

The incredible story of a band of renegades, an epic race with a $10 million prize and the birth of private spaceflight.

Kepler's is thrilled to bring journalist Julian Guthrie and special guests to celebrate the publication of How to Make a Spaceship.

This exhilarating story chronicles the $10 million Ansari XPRISE offered by entrepreneur and visionary Peter Diamandis for the first private craft to achieve suborbital spaceflight. In the 1990s, this achievement would have been science fiction. In her book, Guthrie chronicles the teams racing against time and technology to achieve one of the greatest entrepreneurial feats of our time: privately funded and designed space flight.

At the heart of the story is the team of renegades that launched the bullet-shaped SpaceShipOne and a saga that draws in larger-than-life characters like designers Dick and Burt Rutan, test pilot Mike Melvill, aviation legacy Erik Lindbergh and mad geniuses like John Carmack and Elon Musk. If you loved Rocket Boys, The Right Stuff, The Martian and other stories of steely-eyed missile men, you wont want to miss this high-flying event.

Panel: Julian Guthrie, Author; Bob Richards, CEO, Moon Express; Pete Worden, Breakthrough Initiatives

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