![]() He discovered that Charles Lindbergh made his transatlantic flight to win a $25,000 prize. Undaunted, Diamandis found inspiration in the golden age of aviation. In the 1990s, this idea was the stuff of science fiction. If the government wouldn't send him to space, he would create a private space flight industry himself. When he realized NASA was winding down manned space flight, he set out on one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time. The spectacle defied reason, the result of a competition dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space required small teams to do what only the world's largest governments had done beforea From the age of eight, when he watched Apollo 11 land on the Moon, Diamandis's singular goal was to get to space. If he did, he would make history as the world's first commercial astronaut. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. Alone in a spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed towards space. ![]()
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