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Abrash, Michael, 179

Abruzzo, Richard, 191n

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Diamandis and Kotler), 406

Academy of Model Aeronautics, 250

Accidental Zillionaire, The: Demystifying Paul Allen (Rich), 314

Adams, Douglas, 241

Adams, Mike, 5, 253

Advent Launch Services, 275

AeroAstro (MIT), 32–33, 39–40, 73

Aero Club of America, 124

Aerodynamics, 56–57, 245–46, 247, 247n, 248–49

Aerospace engineering, Diamandis at MIT, 70–74

AeroVironment, 119–20

AIDS, 67, 110–12, 149–52

AIDS Rides, 374

Air Force, U.S., 55, 56, 157–58, 314–15

Scientific Advisory Board, 120

Air Force One, 401

Air Force Two, 199

Air France, 287–88

Akkerman, Jim, 274–75, 296, 411

Albany Medical School, 95

Alcock, John, 171n, 194

Aldrin, Buzz, 32, 177

Apollo 11, 12, 14–16, 48, 182, 228–29

Blastoff Corporation, 228–29

SpaceShipOne and, 2, 256, 315, 341

XPRIZE, 164, 170, 172, 177, 204

Allen, Paul

background of, 200–201

formation of company with Rutan, 254–57

Rutan and Proteus, 199–201

Rutan and XPRIZE, 252–57, 371, 401

SpaceShipOne and, 307–8, 314, 331, 335–36, 346–47, 377, 408

Branson buys rights, 336n, 376–77

flight tests, 337–38, 340–44

flight day one, 380, 381, 385, 386

flight day two, 396, 397, 399, 401

update on, 408

Alliant Techsystems (ATK), 350

Alsbury, Mike, 409

Altair, 22

Amazon.com, 211, 212–13, 319

American Airlines, 288

American Physical Society, 131–32

American Rocket Company, 130

America’s Cup, 252, 252n

AMRAAM (Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile), 350

Anders, William, 147–48

Anderson, Eric, 208–11, 239, 409

Anderson, Maria, 393

Anderson, R. Gregg, 391

Anderson, Walt, 185, 256

International Microspace, 95, 104, 106, 107, 108–9

Angel Technologies, 114–21, 154

Proteus, 154, 162–63, 196–201

Anheuser-Busch, 194, 214

Ansari, Amir, 298–301

Ansari, Anousheh, 298–301, 317, 379, 409

Ansari, Hamid, 298–301

Aon, 294–95

Apollo 1, 32

Apollo 7, 118

Apollo 8, 145, 147–48

Apollo 11, xiv, 11–17, 139, 182, 200, 205, 228–29, 403

Apollo 13, 32, 165, 167

Apollo 15, 229

Apollo 17, 20, 40, 172, 229

Apollo Lunar Module, 14–15, 247–48

Apple Computer, 205, 228, 228n, 278

ARCA, 277–79, 410–11

Argentine Association for Space Technology, 182

Argentine space program, 182, 182n

Arista Air, 44–45

Aristotle, 89

Arizona State University, 42–43

Armadillo Aerospace, 269–73, 296, 367–70, 410

Armstrong, Neil, 12, 14–16, 182, 222

Armstrong limit, 198, 198n

Arnold, Jim, 35

Arnold, Marc

Angel Technologies and Proteus, 115–20, 154, 169, 199

Erik Lindbergh’s anniversary flight, 262, 264, 286

ARPANET, 115, 115n

Arthritis Foundation, 291

Artificial Gravity Sleeper (AGS), 72–74, 89

Association of Space Explorers, 168

Astronaut Corps, 68, 142–43, 144, 197

Astronautix, 180

Ataktos, 11

Atkov, Oleg, 97

Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 76–77, 88, 106, 126, 135, 392

Atmosphere

boundary between space and Earth’s, 3, 3n, 133, 335, 335n

layers of, 335n

Atmospheric entry. See Reentry

Atrial fibrillation, 67–68

Aviation prizes, 125, 170–71. See also Orteig Prize

AZT (azidothymidine), 111

Bahn, Patrick, 186

Balloon race around the world, 189–202

Dick Rutan’s misadventure, 189–94

GlobalFlyer and Steve Fossett, xiv, xv, 195, 315, 377

Baltimore Orioles, 205

Banks, Johnny, 53

Bantam Books, 210

Baran, Paul, 115n

Barbie Dream House, 18

Beale Air Force Base, 197

Bede Aircraft, 53–54, 156, 323

Beechcraft Bonanza, 264

Beechcraft Starship, 58–59, 342

Bee venom, 146

Behavioral conditioning, 87–88

Bell, Art, 390

Bell P-59 Airacomet, 376

Bell X-1 (XS-1), 139

Bennett, Steve, 183–84, 266–69, 295, 370–72, 411

Berg, Jeff, 235

Bevis, Colette, 128, 206

Bezos, Jeff, 126, 211–13, 241, 319, 392, 411–12

Binnie, Brian

background of, 324–28

SpaceShipOne and, 352–57, 360–62

flight tests, 323–24, 328–33, 339–40

flight day one, 378, 379–80, 386–87

flight day two, 388–401

flight training, 354–57

propulsion issues, 307, 308, 350–52

update on, 407–8

Binnie, Valerie, 327, 389–90, 394, 397, 398–99

Bird, Cory, 252, 258, 329

Bixby, Harold, 169

Black Armadillo, 270–73, 367–70

Black Arrow, 183

Blakey, Marion, 347, 380–81

Blastoff Corporation, 224–38

Blink, Russ, 271–72, 367–70

Blue Origin, 319, 411–12

Body putty, 322–23

Boeing 727, 122, 299, 413

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, 55, 107, 201, 246, 248

Bonnet, Roger, 91

Boomerang, 161–62

Borman, Frank, 147–48

Boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space, 3, 3n, 133, 335, 335n

Bowman, Kathlene “Kit,” 312

Branson, Richard, xiii–xvi

balloon race and Virgin Global Challenger, 195

Diamandis and XPRIZE, xiii, xv, 208–11

SpaceShipOne and, 335–36, 341

buys rights to, 336n, 376–77

flight day one, 376–77, 385

update on, 408–9

Virgin Galactic, xiv, xv–xvi, 408–9, 413–15

Breedlove, Craig, 234

Breitling Orbiter, 195

Bremerton Airport, 146

Brezhnev, Leonid, 277

Brilliant Pebbles, 108

British Open, 333

Brown, Arthur, 171n, 194

Brown, Richard, 262

Brown University, 325

Buffett, Warren, 200

Bush, George H. W., 165

Bush, George W., 291, 312–13

Caldwell, Doug, 233

California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 63, 131–32, 226, 230

California Polytechnic State University, 53

Cameron, Jim, 225–26, 227–28, 242, 375

Campbell, John, 352, 358–59

Camp Schurman, 78–80, 82, 83

Canadian Arrow, 274

Captiva Island, 220–21

Carbon fiber, 1, 56–57, 252, 393

Carmack, John, 178–80, 185–88, 269–73, 367–70, 410

Carrying the Fire (Collins), 172

Carter, Jimmy, 34

Catbird, 117

CATS (Cheap Access to Space) Prize, 180, 185, 270

CBS Evening News (TV show), 11–12, 13, 15–16

Ceauşescu, Nicolae, 277

Cerf, Vint, 115n

Cernan, Eugene, 20, 106, 229

Chaffee, Roger, 32

Challenger disaster, 62–63, 76, 126, 128, 143

Charter Communications, 199

Chemistry, Diamandis at Great Neck High, 22–24

Chicago Society for Space Settlement, 104

Chirban, John, 87–90

Churchill, Susanne, 96, 97

Civil Aviation Authority, 268–69

Clancy, Tom, 205–6, 214

Clark, John, 130

Clark, William, 150

Clarke, Arthur C.

International Space University and, 76, 93–94

Peter, Bob, and Todd’s meeting with, 45–47

XPRIZE and, 134, 174–75

Clavier, Charles W., 171

Clementine Mission, 204

Cloning, 89

COBE satellite, 30n

Colella, Nick, 154, 160

Coleman, Chuck, 393, 398

Colgate, 183, 267

Coli, François, 171

Collins, Michael, 12, 172

Columbia shuttle disaster, 5, 312–13, 313n, 319

Comanceanu, Andrei, 365–66

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), 247n

Conner, Dennis, 252n

Cooper, Gordon, 130

Cornell University, 44

Cronise, Ray, 93, 122, 127, 374

Cronkite, Walter, 11–12, 13, 15–16

Crossfield, Albert “Scotty,” 4–5, 6, 157

Crystal Mountain Resort, 80

CTA, Inc., 127

Dallas Area Rocket Society, 188, 270

Danforth, William, 169

Darlington, Dick, 155–56

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), 107, 115n

Da Vinci Project, 274, 296, 371

Davis, Noel, 171

DC-X (Delta Clipper Experimental), 117, 204, 271, 272, 294

De León, Pablo, 181–83, 275–76, 295, 296, 371, 399, 410

Deli Haus (Boston), 87, 89–90, 110, 112

DeLong, Dan, 128–29, 133, 135

Demonstrator, 365–67

Der Red Max, 21

Diamandis, Dax, 406

Diamandis, Harry, 15, 19, 37, 204, 375, 400

Diamandis, Jet, 406

Diamandis, Kristen Hladecek, 375, 385–86, 399–400, 406

Diamandis, Marcelle, 16, 18, 95, 375

Diamandis, Peter H.

childhood love of space, 17–19, 20–26

Apollo 11 landing, 11–17, 403

companies of, 405–6

Angel Technologies, 114–21, 122, 154

Blastoff Corporation, 224–38

International Microspace, 95, 98–113, 115, 117, 122, 127, 230, 402

Space Adventures, 208–9, 210, 239, 409

ZERO-G, 122, 127–28, 208, 240, 299, 374, 406, 413–14

death and memorial for Hawley, 149–52

early life of, 17–26

education of

Great Neck North High School, 21–23, 28

Hamilton College, 27–29, 33, 34–37

Harvard Medical’s HST program, 64–69, 90, 94–100

MIT, 29, 30–33, 37, 38–44, 47–49, 64, 69–75

faith and truth and, 87–90

ISU and, 74–76, 90–94, 95–98, 100, 149–50, 177, 182

SEDS and, 39–45, 64–65, 68, 74, 101, 104, 122, 212

at Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, 139–41, 149–52, 402–4

SpaceShipOne and

flight tests, 2, 7, 341–42

flight day one, 360, 376–82, 385–86

flight day two, 391–92, 397

unveiling, 314–15, 317, 318

at UN Space Conference, 44–47

update on, 405–6

XPRIZE and, 236, 317–20

Ansari meeting, 298–301

Branson meeting, xiii, xv, 208–11

Erik Lindbergh’s anniversary flight, 264–65, 280–81, 285–86, 287–88

First USA Bank, 214–15, 292–93

formal announcement, 164, 169–73

fund-raising and pitches, 133–34, 203–4, 206–15, 243, 256, 293, 373–74

hole-in-one contract, 292–302, 374–75

Lindbergh meetings, 139–45, 147–49

Montrose gathering, 125–33, 301–2

Musk meeting, 238–44

Diamandis, Tula, 37, 72

Apollo 11 landing, 15, 16–17

early life of Peter, 19–20

MIT visit, 30–32

SpaceShipOne and, 375, 381–82, 400

XPRIZE and, 204

Diet Rite, 374

Direct injection, 230–31

Disney, Walt, 52–53, 348

Dobronski, Joe, 262, 264–65, 286

Dole, Elizabeth, 91

Dolphin, 130–31

Doom 3 (video game), 179, 369

Dorrington, Graham, 371

Dot-com bubble, 203–4, 224–25, 232–33, 318

Dovey Manufacturing, 155

Draper, Charles Stark “Doc,” 32–33, 43

Draper Lab, 32–33, 43–44

Drexler, Eric, 41, 121–22

EAc (Environmental Aeroscience Corporation), 306–7, 352n

Earhart, Amelia, 155

Earth-fixed velocity, 13n

Earthrise, 147–48

Earthwinds, xiv

Eaton, Phil, 271–72

EBay, 225, 238, 271

Edwards Air Force Base, 4, 50, 51, 53, 157, 251, 327, 336, 347, 375–76

Ehrlich, Paul, 148

Eid, Jean-Michel, 294

Einstein, Albert, 89, 90

Electrogastrographs, 39

Elias, Antonio, 107, 314

Ellison, Harlan, 227

Emmons Glacier, 79–80, 82

Enbrel, 218–19, 259

Engines of Creation (Drexler), 121–22

Enterprise, USS, 326

Enterprise Rent-a-Car, 207, 214

Error-correcting systems, 186–87

Escape from Gravity, 406

Estes rocket kits, 21, 25, 74, 145, 178, 222

European Space Agency (ESA), 91, 182n, 411

Evans, Bruce, 55, 58–59, 193–94

Evans, Ronald, 20

Evergreen State College, 80

Everything Club, 21–22

Experimental Aircraft Association, 155–56

Explorers Club, 168

Faget, Maxime “Max,” 314, 316–17

Falcon 9, 319

Fate Is the Hunter (Gann), 60, 147

Fazio, Giovanni, 96

Feather configuration of SpaceShipOne, 3, 6, 249–50, 253–54, 314, 316–17, 330, 344, 351, 383, 384, 396

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), 251, 374

Office of Commercial Space Transportation, 168, 271, 340, 343–44, 347–48, 369

SpaceShipOne and, 336–37, 340, 343–44, 347–48, 349, 380–81, 385

Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, 61

Feeney, Brian, 184, 274, 293, 296, 371

Feynman, Richard, 29n, 31, 63, 128n, 131–32

Feynman Prize, 121

Fields, Bert, 228

Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 29n

First-person shooter games, 178, 178n

First-stage cutoff, 13, 13n

First USA Bank, 214–15, 292–93

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 20

Fleishman-Hillard, 169

Fleming, Dick, 169

Flight simulator, 354–55, 356

Fonck, René, 171

Fortune (magazine), 237, 298–99

Fossett, Steve, xiv, 195, 204, 315, 377

Fox, Sam, 169

French, Jim, 294–98

Friedman, Jerome, 29

Friendship 7, 139, 246

Fulton, Fitz, 157

Fund-raising

for International Microspace, 95, 102, 106, 107–9

for SEDS, 43–44

for XPRIZE, 133–34, 203–4, 206–15, 243, 256, 293, 373–74

Gagarin, Yuri, 48, 52, 117, 133n, 149, 151, 175, 400

Gage, Phineas, 65

Gann, Ernest, 60, 146–47

Ganzer, Dave, 160–61

Garriott, Owen, 71, 127

Garriott, Richard, 127

Gates, Bill, 200, 255–56, 310

Gaubatz, Bill, 204

Gauchito, 183, 275–76

Gehry, Frank, 200

Gell-Mann, Murray, 29n, 31

Gemini mission, 11, 48, 118, 168, 314

Gentry, Jerry, 53

George Mason University, 300

George Washington University, 44, 101

Geostar, 126

Geostationary satellites, 46, 47

Gift from the Sea (Lindbergh), 220–21

Glenn, John, 91, 118, 139, 403

GlobalFlyer, xiv, xv, 195, 315, 377

Goddard, Robert, 24, 145, 212

Goldin, Dan, 164–66, 172

Goldin, Zachary, 172

Goodstein, Marcia, 232

Google, 224–25

Google Lunar XPRIZE, 405–6

Gossamer Albatross, 119–20

Gossamer Condor, 119

Gray, Paul, 74–75

Grazer, Brian, 235

Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 20

Great Neck North High School, 21–23, 28

Green Arrow, 371

Greenberg, Billy, 21–23, 25, 111

Grissom, Virgil “Gus,” 32, 130, 248, 316

Gross, Bill, 225–29, 231, 232, 234–35, 237

Gross, Larry, 225–28, 231, 234, 237–38

Guggenheim, Daniel, 145

Gumowitz, Gary, 21

Haig, Alexander, 115–16

Haleakala National Park, 83

Hale-Bopp Comet, 204

Halley’s Comet, 34

Hamilton College, 27–29, 33, 34–37

Harvard Bridge, 30, 30n

Harvard Medical School, 64–69, 90, 94–100

Hawking, Stephen, 406, 409, 413–15

Hawley, Alan, 124

Hawley, Todd B.

AGS testing, 74

AIDS diagnosis of, 110–12, 149

death and memorial, 149–52

International Microspace, 104, 109–10

ISU and, 74–76, 90–94, 100, 111–12, 149–50

SEDS and, 44–47, 101, 104

Heathkits, 22

Heathrow Airport, 208, 209

Heat tolerance, 249, 249n, 311–12, 322–23

Heinlein, Robert, 135, 143, 179, 228, 294

Helios, 120

Hendrix, Jimi, 200

“Heron and the Astronaut, The” (Lindbergh), 84, 84n

Hewlett-Packard, 21, 126

Hidalgo, Loretta, 373, 399

High Frontier, The (O’Neill), 41, 88, 91, 104–5

Hillary, Edmund, 261

History Channel, 291

HIV/AIDS, 67, 110–12, 149–52

Hoey, Bob, 248, 250, 335

Hole-in-one insurance, 293

Hole-in-one space insurance, 294–302, 374–75

Hoover, Bob, 341

Hospodar, Riq, 151

Howard, Ron, 235

Huang, David H., 179

Hudson, Gary, 210, 306

Montrose gathering, 128, 129, 130

Roton and Rotary Rocket, 256–57, 324, 328

XPRIZE proposal, 135, 184, 256

Human longevity, 120–21, 406

Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI), 406

Hunter, Maxwell, 129

Huzel, Dieter K., 179

Hydrogen peroxide, 271, 369

Idealab, 224–25, 226, 231, 232–33, 235, 238

Ideal rocket equation, 24n, 129, 129n

Id Software, 178, 179, 186, 188, 270, 272–73

Ignition! (Clark), 130

Inconel-X, 249

Independence, USS, 326

International Microspace, 95, 98–113, 115, 117, 122, 127, 230, 402

International Space Station (ISS), 40, 72–73, 239–40, 409, 412

International Space University (ISU), 74–76, 90–98, 100, 182, 405

Islamoff, Jacob, 171

J. Renee, 195

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), 226, 230, 232, 294

Johnson, Caldwell, 314

Johnson, Jeff, 307–12, 384, 393

Johnson, Michael, 129

Johnson, Samuel, Jr., 140

Jones, Brian, 195n

Jones, Robert T., 51, 116

Joyce, James, 29n

JP Aerospace, 186

Kahn, Bob, 115n

Kahn, Herman, 115n

Kang, Katherine Anna, 269–70, 272–73, 367

Kansas Cosmonaut Space Center, 251

Karloutsos, Alex, 18–19, 89

Kármán, Theodore von, 3

Karman line, 3, 3n, 133, 347, 395–96

Kelly Space & Technology, 295

Kendall, Henry, 29

Kennedy, Edward, 91

Kennedy, John F., 12, 52, 143

Kepler, Johannes, 90

Kerth, Al, 169–70, 174, 204–5, 207, 214–15

Kevlar, 323

King, Doug, 169, 214–15, 264

Kings Point, Long Island, 19–26

Kleinrock, Leonard, 115n

Kloor, Harry, 93, 373, 375

Knievel, Evel, 184, 184n

Knight, Harry, 169, 174

Konchellah, John, 222–23

Koontz, Dean, 362

Kranz, Eugene “Gene,” 165

Kraselsky, Bruce, 294, 297

Kreigh, Dan, 378

Kreigh, Rojana, 378

Kremer, Henry, 119n

Kremer prizes, 119, 119n, 121

Kubrick, Stanley, 174

L5 (space organization), 41, 122

Lambert, Albert Bond, 168

Lancair 300, 264, 284–91

Lancair Company, 285

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 160

Le Bourget Field, 25, 171, 174, 290

Leno, Jay, 355

Lesbos, 15

Lewicki, Chris, 233

Lewis, Meriwether, 150

Lexington, USS, 326

Libertarianism, 95, 106, 126

Lichtenberg, Byron, 122, 374

Erik Lindbergh’s anniversary flight, 262, 286

ISU and, 75, 91

MVL experiment and Diamandis, 47–49, 70

XPRIZE and, 298–99

first meeting with Peter, 142–45, 147, 148–49

formal announcement, 164–65, 168

Montrose gathering, 127–28, 129–30, 135

Lifetimer clock, 92

Limits to Growth, The (O’Neill), 104, 148

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 81, 84, 84n, 140–42, 220–21

Lindbergh, Charles, 24, 144, 221

environmentalism of, 83–84

fund-raising for flight, 168–69

Spirit of St. Louis flight, 25, 51, 78, 123–25, 139–41, 171–72, 174, 194, 284–85, 288, 288n

The Spirit of St. Louis (book), 80–81, 112–13, 123–25, 141, 167, 168–69, 286–87, 288–90

Lindbergh, Charles, Jr., 81, 85–86, 141

Lindbergh, Erik

anniversary flight honoring grandfather, 280–91

the flight, 284–91

proposal, 261–65

survival training, 281–84

background of, 80–81, 146–47

first years of flying, 146–47

grandfather and, 80–81, 83–84, 144, 167, 171–72, 222–23

Mount Rainier climb, 78–85

rheumatoid arthritis of, 85–86, 145–46, 167, 195–96, 216–20, 261, 263

recovery, 216–20, 259–60

Rutan and balloon race, 194–96

SpaceShipOne and, 314–15, 341, 399–400

update on, 406

wood working of, 219–23, 260–61

XPRIZE and, 164, 166–68, 171–72, 194, 260–62, 317–18, 375

first meeting with Peter, 142–45, 147–49

Lindbergh, Gus, 259–60, 280

Lindbergh, Jon, 81, 86, 167, 263

Lindbergh, Jonathan, 85–86

Lindbergh, Leif, 79–80, 82–83

Lindbergh, Mara, 147, 218, 259–60, 280

Lindbergh, Morgan, 164, 166–68, 172, 263

Lindbergh, Reeve, 85–86, 221

Diamandis and XPRIZE, 140–42, 144, 404

nephew Erik’s anniversary flight, 262–63, 264

Lindbergh Award, 140–42

Lindbergh Foundation, 84, 140, 148, 263, 291

Little Prince, The (Saint-Exupéry), 300

Lloyd, James W., 263

Lockheed Martin, 50n, 68, 234, 235, 248, 376, 403

Lockheed P-38 Lightning, 50n, 376

Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, 376

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, 248, 403

Logan Airport, 325

Long-EZ, 56, 157, 176, 198, 356–57, 398, 407, 409

Longitude Prize, xiii, 125

Losey, Steve, 316, 340, 349–50, 352, 377–78, 387, 401, 408

Losing My Virginity (Branson), 208

Lost in Space (TV series), 12

Lovell, James, 32, 147–48, 167

Lucas, George, 293

Ludlow Aviation, 146

Lunar Lander (video game), 22

Lynn, Jon, 22, 26

Lynn, Suzanne, 26

Lynx, 407–8

McAuliffe, Christa, 143

MacCready, Paul, 119–20, 121

McDivitt, Jim, 32

McDonnell, John, 169

McDonnell Douglas Corp., 91, 167, 169, 262

McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, 53

McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, 107

McDowell, Mike, 127, 208–9

Mach, Ernst, 1n

Mach 1, 1–2, 1n

Mach 5, 5

McKinney, Bevin, 130–31, 184, 324

Macklin, Frank, 352, 358–59

McLucas, John, 75

Magellan, Ferdinand, 150–51

Man Vehicle Laboratory (MVL), 39–40, 47–49, 68, 69–74

Man Who Sold the Moon, The (Heinlein), 135, 179, 228, 392

Maritz, Bill, 206–7

Maritz Inc., 206

Mark, Hans, 44

Mars, 240–42

Mars Global Surveyor, 204

Marshall Space Flight Center, 93

Mars Pathfinder, 204, 225–26

Mars Society, 242

Maryniak, Gregg, 112–13

Hawley memorial, 149

International Microspace and, 101–5, 110

O’Neill memorial, 122

SEDS and, 101, 104

XPRIZE and, 125, 170, 173, 177, 206–7, 214–15, 236, 292–94, 375

Erik Lindbergh’s anniversary flight, 261–62, 264–65, 282–87, 290

Maryniak, Maureen, 104

Massachusetts General Hospital, 66–67, 94, 111

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Infinite Corridor, 30–31, 37, 38, 39, 402

International Space University at, 91, 92–94

Man Vehicle Lab, 39–40, 47–49, 68, 69–74

Peter Diamandis at, 29, 30–33, 37, 38–44, 47–49, 64, 69–75

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), 28–29, 31, 39

Mass drivers, 41, 105, 105n

Mayflower II, 274–75

Mayo Clinic, 216–17, 259

Melton, Dave, 189–93

Melvill, Graham, 157

Melvill, Keith, 157

Melvill, Mike, 153–62

background of, 154–55

flight testing for Rutan, 159–63

Proteus, 162–63, 196–99

love of flying, 154–56

SpaceShipOne and, 317, 355–57, 360–62

flight day one, 375–87

flight day two, 394–95, 396, 398, 401

flight tests, 1–7, 323–24, 330–35, 338–50

update on, 407

Voyager One and, 57–59, 60–62

Melvill, Sally, 58, 153–57, 159, 160

SpaceShipOne and, 7, 313–14, 341, 355, 356, 361–62

flight day one, 378, 379, 381, 383, 385

flight day two, 394, 398–99

update on, 407

Merchant Marine Academy, U.S., 25

Mercury 7, 117, 133n, 143, 200

Mesosphere, 118, 335n

Metcalfe, Walter, 169

Methodfive, 238

Mickey, Kevin, 332–33

Microsoft, 255–56, 314

Milburn, Neil, 270–73, 367–70

Mitchell, Ed, 32

Mojave Aerospace Ventures, 255–58

Mojave Air and Space Port, 374, 390, 408

Mojave Airport, 114–15

Mojave Overpass Café, 56

Molnar, Dezso, 233, 234

Montrose gathering, 125–33, 301–2

Moon rocks, 35, 225

Moon-to-Earth link, 230, 230n

Moore, Dave, 255–58, 307–12, 377

Morecambe Bay, 267–68, 269

Morrison, Philip, 31

Mother Teresa, 88–89

Mount Everest, 261

Mount Rainier, 78–85

Murphy, Diane, 234, 298, 375

Musk, Elon

Diamandis and XPRIZE, 238–44

SpaceX, 318–19, 371, 392, 412

MVL (Man Vehicle Laboratory), 39–40, 47–49, 68, 69–74

Nanotechnology, 41, 121

Napoleon Bonaparte, 125

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). See also specific people and missions

1960s budget, 34

1970s budget, 33–35, 40

failure and risk-averse mindset, 49, 62–63, 76, 164–66, 207, 300

MIT and, 32–33, 39–40, 47–49, 68

Peter’s letters to, 29–30

NASDAQ, 224

National Board of Medical Examiners, 100

National Space Society, 168

Navier-Stokes equation, 247n

Navy, U.S., 325–27

Near-Earth asteroids, 35

Necker Island, 208

New Shepard, 411–12

New Spirit of St. Louis, 169, 170, 175, 204–5, 214

New Spirit of St. Louis, 285–91

New York Times, 19, 123

Nicklaus, Jack, 333

9/11 attacks (2001), 280–81, 291

Nitrogen triiodide, 22–23

Nitrous oxide, 1, 3, 308–9, 358–59, 377

Niven, Larry, 227

Nixon, Richard, 20

Nocera, Joe, 237

Noctilucent clouds, 335n

North American Aviation, 12

North American X-15, 4–5, 118, 248, 249, 253, 316, 317

Northrop Grumman, 12, 214, 247–48, 408

Noteboom, Bob, 95, 98

Nova 1, 266–69

Nova 2, 370–71

November, Michael, 28–29, 31

Noyce, Robert, 31

Nozette, Stu, 204

Nungesser, Charles, 171

Oberth, Hermann, 24–25, 91, 365

O’Brien, Miles, 381, 382

Oculus Rift, 410

Oman, Chuck, 47–48

Omni (magazine), 34–35, 42–43

O’Neill, Gerry, 41, 91, 104–5, 105n, 122, 126, 212

Orbital Sciences Corporation, 107, 117, 230

Orbital velocity, 13n, 129–30

Orient Express, 120

O-rings, 63, 128

Orteig, Raymond, 123–25, 150, 171

Orteig Prize, 113, 123–24, 140, 144, 169, 171

Pacific American Launch Systems, 130

Pallotta, Dan, 374

Pan Am Airlines, 210

Panlasigui, Angel, 237

Parabolic arc, 4, 4n

Paramount Pictures, 292

Parkes Radio Astronomy Observatory, 13

Pascal, Blaise, 90

Pathfinder, 119–20

PayPal, 238

P effect, 162, 162n

Pegasus, 107, 108, 117

Pelton, Joe, 75

Pelz, Danny, 21

Petersen, Kevin, 315

Phased orbit, 231, 231n

Philippines, 83–84

Piccard, Bertrand, 195, 195n

Pickens, Tim, 305–6, 307–10, 352n

Piper Cherokees, 91–92

Piper Clubs, 55

Pitch, 198, 198n

Planetary Resources, Inc., 406

Planetary Society, 47

Pogue, William, 71

Popescu, Dumitru, 180–81, 276–79, 295, 363–67, 371, 410–11

Popescu, Elena Simona, 276–77, 363–67

Popular Science, 23

Population Bomb, The (O’Neill), 104

Portland Trail Blazers, 201

Potassium perchlorate, 25–26

Pressure suits, 24, 197–98, 198n

Price, Frank, 35–37

Princeton Airport, 101, 103

Princeton University, 41–42, 126, 211, 212, 325

Space Studies Institute, 41, 104, 105

Processor Technology, 22

Project Gemini, 11, 48, 118, 168, 314

Project Mercury, 117, 133n, 143, 200

Proteus, 154, 162–63, 196–201, 246

Prunariu, Dumitru, 277–78, 364–65

Purdue University, 324–25

Quark Expeditions, 208

Quarks, 29, 29n

Raburn, Vern, 199–201

Radar, 28, 57

Raptor (Responsive Aircraft Program for Theater OpeRations), 159–61, 160n

Ray, E. Lansing, 169

Raytheon, 350

Reagan, Ronald, 42, 45, 73, 107, 120, 212

Redstone, 11, 118, 248, 316

Reentry, 248–49, 253–54

Apollo 11, 14–15

SpaceShipOne, 5–7, 316, 344, 383, 397

thermal protection systems, 249, 249n, 311–12, 322–23

Republic Field, 285–86

Ressi, Adeo, 238–43, 317–19

Restricted Area 2515 (R-2515), 4

Richards, Bob, 375

Hawley memorial, 149, 151

ISU and, 74–76, 92, 403

SEDS and, 44–47

Richter, Burton, 31

Ridenoure, Rex, 229–30

Right Stuff, The (movie), 130

Robbins, Barbara, 85–86, 167, 218, 263, 291

Robertson, Bill, 168

Robertson, Cliff, 315

Robertson, Frank, 168

Robertson Aircraft Corporation, 168

Rocket coding, 186–87

Rocket equation, 24n, 129, 129n

Rocket fuel, 24–25, 271

SpaceShipOne, 2–3, 30, 130–31, 258, 305–7, 350–52, 358–60

Rocket Racing League, 410

Rockwell X-30, 120

Rogers, William Barton, 31

Rogers Commission, 62–63, 128n

Romanian Space Agency, 277, 364–65

Roosevelt Field, 25, 171, 285

Root, Wayne, 14, 19

Rotary Rocket Company, 205, 256, 324, 327–28

Roton, 256–57, 324, 327–28

Rules, breaking, xiv–xv

Rutan, Carolyn, 157

Rutan, Dick

background of, 55–56

balloon misadventure, 189–96

Catbird flight, 117

SpaceShipOne and, 356, 378, 381, 382

Voyager One flight, 54–62, 135, 189

Rutan, Elbert “Burt,” xiv

aircraft designs, 116–17, 153–54, 156–58, 159–63, 196

homebuilts, 54, 116–17, 156–58

Proteus, 154, 162–63, 196–201, 204, 246

background of, 52

at Bede Aircraft, 53–54, 156, 323

childhood love of rockets, 52–53, 55

Diamandis and Angel Technologies, 116–21

failure and NASA, 164–66

spacecraft designs, 245–58

SpaceShipOne and, 305–17

flight day one, 378–80, 385, 386–87

flight day two, 388–89, 392–93, 394, 396–401

flight tests, 3–4, 6, 7, 322–23, 329, 331–42, 344–50

propulsion issues, 350–52, 357–58, 360–61

update on, 406–7

Voyager One flight, 50–52, 54–62

XPRIZE and, 135, 174, 175–76, 201–2, 204, 246, 294–96, 371

Rutan, George, 52

Rutan, Irene, 52, 55, 378

Rutan, Nell, 57

Rutan, Tonya, 338, 406–7

Rutan Aircraft Factory (RAF), 7, 54, 156–57

Ryan Airlines, 284

Sagan, Carl, 44, 210

St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, 169

St. Louis Flying Club, 169

St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 169

St. Louis Planetarium, 203–6

St. Louis Science Center, 169, 173–77, 214–15, 264, 285

St. Louis World’s Fair (1904), 207

Sanders, Doug, 333

San Diego International Airport, 284

Santa Monica Airport, 317

Santa Monica apartment, 235–36, 237, 243, 301

Sarigul-Klijn, Marti, 328

Saturn V, 13, 14, 24, 40, 118, 307

Scaled Composites, 54, 116–17, 128, 158–61, 245, 250–52, 296, 305–6. See also SpaceShipOne; and specific aircraft and persons

update on, 407–8

Schankman, Steve, 169

Scharfman, Scott, 41–42, 391

Scherer, Robert, 393

Schmitt, Harrison, 20, 229

Schweickart, Rusty, 32, 48, 91

Scott, Dave, 32

Scott, Hugh, 169

Seattle Seahawks, 201, 253

SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space), 39–45, 64–65, 74, 101

September 11 attacks (2001), 280–81, 291

Seventh-day Adventists, 52, 55–56

Shane, Doug

Raptor and, 159

SpaceShipOne and White Knight, 310–11, 317, 353, 360, 361

flight day one, 380–81, 383–87

flight day two, 394–98

flight tests, 2–3, 5, 6, 339–40, 343, 344–48

update on, 408

Shatner, William, 341, 379

Sheerin, Geoffrey, 184, 274

Shepard, Alan, 133n, 166, 248, 316, 386

Shockley, Bill, 31

Shuttleworth, Mark, 299

Sidewinders, 350

Siebold, Pete, 409

Proteus and, 196–97, 198

SpaceShipOne and, 353, 354–55, 360–61, 387

flight tests, 323–24, 339–40, 341

Sikorsky, Igor, 80n, 171

Singularity University (SU), 405–6

SkiGull, 406–7

Skinner, B. F., 87–89

Skylab, 40, 71–72, 127, 168

Sky Station International, 115–16

Sliders (TV series), 173

Smith, Charles Kingsford, 194

Smith, Patti Grace, 168, 347, 380–81

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, 139–41, 149–52, 212, 402–4

Smoot, George, 30n, 31

Smoot, Oliver, 30n

Smullin, Louis, 28

SMUT (Special Mission Utility Transport), 52

Society Expeditions, 128, 210

Society of Experimental Test Pilots, 168

Solar-powered aircrafts, 41, 116, 119–20, 196

Solid-fuel rockets, 24–25

Solitaire, 116–17

Sonus Networks, 298

Sorkin, Richard, 41–42

Soyuz, 118, 239, 277

Space Adventures, 208–9, 210, 239, 409

SpaceDev, 306–7

Spaceflight prizes, 125, 131–35, 140–42. See also XPRIZE

Space Foundation, 168

Space Frontier Foundation, 168, 185

SpaceShipOne, 305–17, 321–62, 375–401

Allen and XPRIZE, 252–57

design considerations, 245–58

fabrication of, 311–12, 313

feather configuration, 3, 6, 249–50, 253–54, 314, 316–17, 330, 344, 351, 383, 384, 396

flight day one (flight 16P), 375–87

flight day two (flight 17P), 388–401

flight tests, 321–24, 328–48

flight 11P, 321–24, 328–33

flight 15P, 1–7, 334–48

flirting with calamity, 334–48

power struggles, 349–62

propulsion issues, 2–3, 30, 130–31, 258, 305–7, 349–52, 357–60

rocket motor test, 307–10

at Smithsonian, 404, 408

thermal tolerance, 311–12, 322–23

unveiling of, 313–17

SpaceShipTwo, 407, 409, 414

Space shuttle program, 20, 34, 40, 47–48, 202n, 249, 275

Challenger disaster, 62–63, 76, 126, 128, 143

Columbia disaster, 5, 312–13, 313n, 319

Space sickness, 39–40, 47–49

Space Studies Institute, 41, 104, 105

Space tourism, 170, 174–75, 200, 299, 413–15

SpaceX, 318–19, 371, 392, 412

Spear, Tony, 225–26

Spielberg, Steven, 225, 228

Spirit of St. Louis (sculpture), 220, 222–23, 260–61

Spirit of St. Louis, The (Lindbergh), 80–81, 112–13, 123–25, 141, 168–69, 286–87, 288–90

Spirit of St. Louis flight, 25, 51, 78, 123–25, 139–41, 171–72, 174, 194, 284–85, 288, 288n

grandson Erik’s anniversary flight, 280–91

Splines, 255–56, 255n

Sputnik, 12, 52, 70, 386–87, 387n

SSTO (Single Stage to Orbit), 129

Stabilizers, 6–7, 162, 250, 344–45, 345n

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 105n

Stanford University, 64, 86, 128

Stapp, John, 18, 18n

Stapp’s Law, 18n

Starchaser Industries, 267–69, 411

Star Trek (TV series), 14, 162, 211, 241, 299, 400, 409

Star Wars (movies), 66, 88, 319

Star Wars program. See Strategic Defense Initiative

Stemme S10, 115

Stinemetze, Matt, 250–52

background of, 251–52

Challenger disaster and, 312–13

SpaceShipOne and, 258, 311–12, 321–23, 342, 349–50, 352, 356, 379–80, 395

Stober, Clifford, 21

Stofan, Andy, 106

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 45, 107–8, 127, 212

Stratolaunch, 314n, 408

Stratosphere, 115, 154, 195, 335n

STS-1 (Space Transportation System-1), 42, 312

Survival Systems, 282–84

Sutton, George P., 179

Svitek, Tomas, 229

Swept-back wing design, 51, 51n, 116, 162

Taurus XL, 230

Taylor, Andrew, 169

Taylor, Jack, 169

Telecom Technologies, 298, 298n, 300

Tesla, Nikola, 90

Texas Instruments, 21

TGV Rockets, 186, 273–74

Thermal tolerance, 249, 249n, 311–12, 322–23

Thermosphere, 335n

Theta Delta Chi, 38, 42–43, 71

Third-stage cutoff, 13n

Thompson, Barry, 317–18

Thompson, Earl, 168

Thrust into Space (Hunter), 129

Tighe, Jim, 6, 7, 344–45, 354, 380, 383, 387, 393

Ting, Samuel, 31

Titanic (movie), 225, 227

Tito, Dennis, 239–40, 299, 315

Titov, Gherman, 48

Tokamak, 28

Tosteson, Dan, 98–99

Transonic corridor, 324, 329–30, 343, 351, 354

Troposphere, 335n

Truax, Bob, 55, 184–85, 184n, 234

Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin, 24, 24n, 72, 90, 129, 150

Tsiolkovsky Medal, 150

Tumlinson, Rick, 185

Tuori, Mr., 22–23

Turta, Constantin, 276–77, 279

2001: A Space Odyssey (Clarke), 45–46

2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), 72, 174

Typhoon Marge, 60

Uliassi, Kevin, 195

Ullage, 358–60

UNIFON, 92

United Nations (UN), 44–47

Unity, VSS, 409, 414

University of Arizona, 233

University of North Dakota, 410

University of Pennsylvania, 238

University of Salford, 267

University of Virginia, 208

University Politehnica of Bucharest, 181

Unload for Control (film), 53

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), 159–60, 160n

Van Vogt, A. E., 143, 227

VariEze, 157

VariViggen, 156, 157, 176

Vela Technology, 209

Vietnam War, xiv–xv, 15, 33, 56, 190

Virgin Atlantic Airways, 208

Virgin Galactic, xiv, xv–xvi, 408–9, 413–15

Virgin Global Challenger, 195

Virgin Group, 208–11, 376–77

Virgin Limobikes, 209

Virgin Records, 208

Vogel, Craig, 79–80, 82–83

Von Braun, Wernher, 24–25, 33, 53, 72, 144, 271, 348, 365

Vortices, 247n

Voyager One, 50–52, 51n, 54–62, 135

Vulcan Aerospace, 408

Wade, Leigh, 194

Walker, Charlie, 91

Walker, Graham, 39

Walker, Joe, 248, 316

Warner, Leon, 323

Warren Anatomical Museum, 65

Washington Monument, 14, 14n

Webb, David C., 44, 93

Webb, Jim, 33

Webvan, 203, 226

Weiss, Bob, 173–74, 213–14

Blastoff Corporation, 233–34, 235

XPRIZE and, 292–94, 297

White, Ed, 32

White House National Space Council, 108

White Knight, 258, 352, 400n

flight day one, 378, 379–80

flight day two, 389, 391–92, 394–95

flight tests, 310–17, 328–32, 340–43

naming of, 258

Whitesides, George, 233, 234, 399, 399n

Wichita State University, 252

Wild Fire, 274

Winchell, Walter, 86

Wine, David, 115, 126–27, 128, 135, 154, 199

Wine, Myra, 126–27

Wireless World, 46

Witt, Stuart, 336–38, 340, 374, 376–77, 380–84, 391, 395

Wooster, Stanton H., 171

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 24

Worden, Pete, 107–9, 117, 125, 127, 204, 314–15

World Quest, 195

World War II, 24–25, 28, 81, 143, 221

World Wildlife Fund, 83

Wright brothers, 24, 215, 296, 297, 321

X-15 rocket plane, 4–5, 118, 248, 249, 253, 316, 317

XCOR Aerospace, 186, 407

XL Specialty Insurance Company, 294–302, 374–75

XPRIZE, xiii, xv–xvi. See also specific persons

Branson meeting, xiii, xv, 208–11

First USA Bank sponsorship, 214–15, 292–93

formal announcement of, 164, 169–73

fund-raising, 133–34, 203–4, 206–15, 243, 256, 293, 373–74

hole-in-one contract, 292–302, 374–75

lifeline for, 259–65

Lindbergh meetings, 139–45

mission statement, 134–35, 301–2

Montrose gathering, 125–33, 301–2

Musk meeting, 238–44

naming of, 144–45

XPRIZE Foundation, 405–6

Yale University, 42

Yarrow Bay Grill, 142–43

Yaw, 198, 198n

Yeager, Chuck, 53, 63, 254, 329, 341

Yeager, Jeana, 54–62, 135

Young, Larry, 48, 69–70, 71, 73, 74, 89, 96

Young, Paul, 268, 269

Young Presidents’ Organization, 169

Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G), 122, 127–28, 208, 240, 299, 374, 406, 413–14

Zip2, 238

Zubrin, Robert, 242