Julian Guthrie - Építsünk űrhajót! - A private űrhajózás and a kereskedelmi űrutazás születésének hihetetlen history

Alone in a spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill raced into space. He had eighty seconds to break the speed of sound and head for the target, a feat never accomplished before by any civilian pilot.
He might not come back alive. If he does, he will make history as the world's first civilian astronaut.

This flight was the result of a competition dreamed up by Peter Diamandis. According to his vision, in the new space race, small teams should achieve
which only the big governments of the world were able to do before.
When he realized that NASA was phasing out human spaceflight, he set out to create the conditions for private spaceflight. For this, he drew inspiration from the golden age of aviation. Charles Lindbergh flew to Europe to win a $25,000 prize. This trip made Lindbergh the most famous man in the world and revitalized the aviation industry. Why not do the same with space travel? thought Diamandis.

The story of the team that built the bullet-shaped Space Ship One rocket and the other teams competing for the $10 million prize is an extraordinary story of the impossible made possible.
In the end, as Diamandis dreamed, the result was not only a victory for one team, but also the foundation of a new industry and a new era.