{"product_id":"spaceshipone-an-illustrated-history-9780760331880","title":"SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn April of 2003  a company called Scaled Composites lifted the veil of secrecy from a longtime research program and introduced SpaceShipOne to the world. And the age of commercial space travel took off . . . like a rocket. This book chronicles the development of the worlds first commercial manned space program--aprogram that includes an airborne launcher (the White Knight)  a space ship (SpaceShipOne)  rocket propulsion  avionics  simulator  and full ground support. With ample illustrations  photographs  and behind-the-scenes information  SpaceShipOne provides a full picture of this classified project--from the conception and design to the deals that brought together Scaled Composites Burt Rutan and Virgin Airlines Sir Richard Branson to the plans for building a fleet of commercial suborbital spaceships and launch aircraft.  The story of SpaceShipOne combines the adventurous spirit of Charles Lindbergh  the entrepreneurial drive of Howard Hughes  and the urgency of the space race at the height of the Cold War. Author Dan Linehan  who was there at the launch  lets readers in on the drama and details behind the making of spaceships that will take twenty-first-century tourists to the final frontier.  Features a never-before-seen cockpit diagram  created especially for this book  identifying all seventy of SpaceShipOnes instruments and controls.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646884012085,"sku":"ByrdShop_076033188X","price":28.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780760331880.jpg?v=1781679872","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/spaceshipone-an-illustrated-history-9780760331880","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}