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Julian Guthrie in conversation with Bob Richards & Mike Snyder, How to Make a Spaceship
Presented by Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler's Books.
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 7:30 p.m. Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park CA 94025 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. Julian Guthrie is an award-winning journalist who spent twenty years at the San Francisco Chronicle. In addition to How to Make a Spaceship she is the author of The Grace of Everyday Saints, based on her Pulitzer Prize-nominated series of articles, and The Billionaire and the Mechanic, a bestselling account of Oracle CEO Larry Ellisons pursuit of the Americas Cup.
Bob Richards is co-founder and CEO of Moon Express, Inc., a U.S. company awarded a $10M commercial lunar contract by NASA and a competitor in the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE.
Mike Snyder is co-founder and chief engineer of Made in Space which develops manufacturing technology for use in the space environment. Peter Diamandis was a mentor to the team at MIS.
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LocationKepler's Books (View)
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
United States
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