How to make a spaceship: a band of renegades, an epic race, and the birth of private space flight

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He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world's first commercial astronaut.

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