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How to Make a Spaceship

412 views · Published 20 July 2017 · 57:25 · Indexed 23 October 2026

Channel: Chicago Humanities · 2017 · Nonprofits & Activism

In 2004, a bullet-shaped rocket called SpaceShipOne was launched from the Mojave Desert, winning the $10 million XPrize for the first private, reusable manned spaceship and effectively creating a new industry that today includes SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and Blue Origin. In "How to Make a Spaceship", Julian Guthrie tells the story of the ingenuity and outsized dreams of the competing teams of aviators, test pilots, billionaires, engineering school dropouts, and NASA retirees. Anousheh Ansari, the first female private space explorer and the first astronaut of Iranian descent, joins Guthrie in conversation.

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