Welcome, everyone. Welcome to the Space Gallery here at the museum of flight. My name is jeff nod, adjunct curator here at the museum. Our president and ceo of doug king sends his regards and his regrets. Hes unfortunately unable to be here tonight as he has taken ill. I would like to begin by thanking our special featured speaker this evening. Our special guest Eric Lindberg and dave maurer. [applause] the team from cspan books will be recording this evenings event and conversation for later viewing. We have fabulous even in store as part of the museums orbit around october. Its a series of space focused events throughout the month leading up to her threeday space best, which will be happening from november 3rd through 5th. This years space best esteemed ladies who launch and features three days of women led talks, activities and panels all about space. For a complete listing of the orbit around october events come i encourage you to take a look at the insert in the space you should have all received a check in. All of this program and is part of a broader effort by the museum to highlight the incredible boom of the committee happening in space today to which the events he later tonight helped catalyze. Most people know the seattle area for airplanes, coffee and software, but we are also very much involved in space. From longtime space pioneers like boeing space and are in the folks at rocketdyne to more recent commoners like blue origin and can washington who work on reasonable rockets. The planetary resources to folks up in basel who are working on in space manufacturing. The Space Community as growing, thriving and diverse and is proud and thrilled to tell the story. It is my distinct pleasure to introduce the featured speaker, author julian guthrie. Guthrie is the author of a new but how to make an epic raise the birth of private spaceflight. They dreamed of bringing space to the masses. The cast includes aviators, pilots, Engineering School dropouts, retirees, billionaires and a particularly determined space geeks who read uses to get up on his dream. Without further ado, it is my pleasure to introduce julian guthrie. [applause] thank you for the great introduction. This book is really interesting on many levels. I kind of look at it now had a vague spaceship is almost a formula for it. Theres almost a recipe as i see it. So you start with is by peter d. Amanda sue is eight years old when apollo 11 landed on the man in july 1969. He is wide eyed, transfixed by the magic of nasa, the magic of apollo is by then. The first time in that foot on another body and has determined kind of like a pile that was what was possible and star trek was what could be possible and he drank all that tank and he believed in all of this. He sat out this unbelievable class to become a master not. His original pursuit was to get there through the typical channels through nasa and he went to m. I. T. And harvard and did all of these things just so you could one day get to space. He gets out of college and realizes nasa is winding down its mans face programs or he was not going to be the one. That was not the way he would get there. What comes next in the special recipe is a book. So she reads a certain book, which connects the story to the golden age of aviation. She reads the spirit of st. Louis and he has this moment where hes reading that and he had thought that Charles Lindbergh flew the transatlantic flight as a stunt and he reads this and hes like well, he flew this to win the 25,000 prize. The arcade prize which really was this great incentive competition in the 1920s and he realizes Charles Lindbergh. He wins the prize. Hes the first man to fly from new york to paris nonstop and connect those two major cities and he launches the commercial space industry about what came out of that. Peter is thinking what if i could do the same thing for space. In may 1996, under the arch in st. Louis, ive been hearing Great Stories from folks who were in the Mojave Desert. In 1996, is under the arch in st. Louis and announces this prize for the first team that can build and fly a rocket to the start of space. Yes when asked or not it is the head of nasa. What he doesnt have his 10 million. So he goes out on this quest. The next part is the lender and he made the flying lindbergh in the family. Eric story within the story is so profound that a man who lives with this enormous legacy and grapples with how to find his own identity within that legacy and we let them out first and ends at the mandalay rescue and also rescuing the prize. Really profound story. Nextline you need in this great recipe, you need a maverick aviation designer. You need this guy is in the Mojave Desert in a small team and can build a spaceship. You need somebody who can beat this kind of really, really dissipate and manner. Dave maurer. Again, you need a benefactor and enter paul allen, cofounder of microsoft. Say he was not a late benefactor. He had this vision that other people couldnt necessarily see at the time. So you have all of these great components. And then what else do you need to fly these experimental machines . You need really intrepid test pilot. We do have Mike Melville. The test pilots have scaled composite. Mike melville, one of the most courageous guys ive ever met is 63 years old when he White Knuckles that to the start of space in june of 2004. You have this great cast of yours. You have great technological innovation. Eucom back. Peter is this great conductor who holds all these different amazing characters into this. He persevered like few people ive ever heard a period the most tenacious guy. He didnt have the 10 million. He went out and saw funding. He gets told no over 150 times. You need perseverance. You need to be very creative. Some of his closest friends were telling him this is never going to work and you shed give it back. He persevered, held onto his dream. Perseverance, dassault tenacity, Great Innovation to make all of this happen. They came together in this magical moment. Many of you were telling me stories of flying out to see one of these in the Mojave Desert where history was made at the small team. Small teams can do really remarkable things. All of this comes together for this moment in history and you have this team of 30 or so people who have built the first spaceship in the replica is right above us. It is a really, really incredible thing that embodies the best of the human spirit, of bravery, and innovation, tenacity and scale at all to levels. I was so happy and honored that i got to tell this story, that i get to talk about this story and the amazing story is now a great inspiration. Im finding and i am so thrilled with that that it is being embraced by this next generation. When we met, he told me that with a gift of a book it was a gift of the spirit of st. Louis that started him on this path and he hopes that how to make a spaceship will inspire the next generation of innovators and the dreamers and of doers. I just want to quickly introduce an amazing small team of High School Students who are from north Idaho Academy and their story is so wonderful is so remarkable if they could come up here real quickly. [applause] they are from north idaho stand Charger Academy and they are building a spaceship. They are building a research satellite. Guess who their handson mentor is . Theyve taken huge inspiration. Amazing. Theyve taken huge inspiration from the story peters story, all of the folks who are here on stage which made the spaceship happened because it was a one person who made it happen. Every person here would play a key role. Erik lindbergh, dave maurer. Paul allen, the test pilots. Those who kept it going. Doug king who unfortunately isnt here, but he rescued the x prize many times. All of these people who manage to keep this dream alive and it was a grueling odyssey of and now we have these really skilled, talented teenagers who are just going to say a few words. We have eric sandman here and we have jessica and just in. Eric, justin and jessica will say a couple of words here. Kind of as the next generation of innovators and dreamers and forward thinkers. Eric, do you want to say a couple words . Thank you. Exactly, like this book by peter read, an amazing book and it inspired him. The advice in this book absolutely inspired us because weve had berbers 10 on the team has an incredible person and we are doing this as teenagers, a High School Team in north idaho. That is like all the odds against you. We are launching a satellite that is the time capsule and modernday 21st century record which is a time capsule in the voyager mission. Watching it on the 40th anniversary of that mission and updated time capsule and we are so fortunate to have hurt and jillian and all of these main role and help us out, give us advice and its absolutely amazing. Just have something to say, too. So, it only takes one person, one vote, one opportunity to unite that number up passion for space. The students may not know that they have. Inspiration for everybody who is our age or older or anybody who has ever heard of the x prize or space ship one. Thank you. [applause] its so wonderful to see the next generation be inspired, i just we wanted to recognize another individual before we start Panel Discussion. I wanted to recognize a gentleman here whose name is arthur davenport. He was the designer of the packbacks for apolo 141. Mr. Davenport is right here. Maybe we can all get only stories from him later on, but i would imagine those are amazing tales. So i think next we are going to have ellen boyle up and we will have a great Panel Discussion and peter has to leave early but we will try to get your questions in. Thank you. Thank you, julian and thank you for the museum. Im not going the take much time, im the what aerospace and i met peter when he was trying to raise that money and came to cover the x prize ever since then. And the x Prize Program has been continuing even after the 10 milliondollar prize awarded. So peter is the founder and executive chairman and has many programs devoted to promote innovation in the works. Look up xprize. Org for more details on that. I just want to refresh your memory about our other panelists, eric linberg is artist, the grand child of charles linburg and helped out the x prize immensely while they were trying to put all this together for the im sorry x prize. Dave moore was project manager for space ship one project. One other thing i wanted to do is catch you up to date, space ship one following by spaceship 24. British billionaire Richard Branson and they had a couple years ago, they recovered from the accident. They have a second spaceship too that they have been flight testing on, Jeff Bezos Space venture launched reusable rockets for the fifth time, amazing, amazing feet that was just couple of weeks ago. We have people from blue origin here and the another Company Called orbital atk. International space station a couple of hours ago. Could be argued that none of this might have happen if it werent for the spark that was led by peter and other people involved in what he calls getting the commercial space flight revolution going all that time ago. Since peters time is limited, im going ask him to share one of your favorite stories and a couple of questions that i wanted to ask you and i know you to get going pretty soon. A hundred of my favorite stories. [laughter] im not honestly not really possible to share one story. I would love to get into the q a. I apologize my team had us starting at 5 30 and 6 30, i had two hours here but im on a flight at 8 15. God, almighty, given that doug is not here, let me embarrass him appropriately. [laughter] next time he shows up. Doug king when i met him was just finished the Challenger Center and just accepted a job at st. Louis science museum. I used to hold a salon in my home, in my living room where i would bring together amazing people and i would come up with the idea of the x prize because i was absolutely positively sure that this 140 milliondollar challenge will work and lindbergh got his money from st. Louis but i was thinking i was going to launch the competition in houston or in la, or in florida or whatever. I was going get money from the city the same way that lindbergh got his must be and doug was over and we were talking, well, you know, you should go to st. Louis again. I said, st. Louis . Yeah. He convinced me to come there and we actually got this going very much in in thanks to him and the long story about how the prize got funded and julian who has done an amazing book and im so proud of the work that you have done. Eric was on my board at the time. When i announced the prize for 10 million i was absolutely positively sure that it was going to be easily fundable. Who would not want to pay 10 million after someone pulled off the flight. It was a nobrainer until after seeking billionaire, no, no, someone is going to tie, no, no, we ended up actually as julian tells in the book, and the whole one insurance policy was this crazy idea that you pay at the time 3 milliondollar premium in order to get the money get someone to bet against you. So we paid the 3 million and someone won the 10 million by the end of 2004 the Insurance Company will pay the money. If no one won they would keep 3 million bucks and the competition was over. The problem was even after we negotiated the prize for 3 million, we didnt have the 3 million for insurance. There would be the 50,000dollar fridays where so i negotiated with them. I will pay you 50,000 a month for a year to give me enough time to raise the rest of the money. And so we would have the 50,000 the first 50,000dollar payment i made myself. That was my maximum i could possibly afford. Eric and i have a lot of Board Members at the x prize wh are the people who reached into their pockets and paid the 50,000dollars friday. Anyway, one period we are short a chunk of change and i go to doug and its like, this thing is over unless you get the museum to pitch in like a quarter Million Dollars. We have the chairman of the museum of flight here, i want you to imagine doug come in and to back, you have to say yes, he did. He got the st. Louis center to pitch in final payments, im sorry family and for that reason, you see on the side of the spaceship along with mars and 7up and the st. Louis sign center is one of the benefactors. He saved my butt a multitude of times. Well, with that, maybe [applause] thatll do. Thatll do. Sure. Why dont we have a couple of questions. I have one that i have to ask. Its been 12 years since the space ship one flights and we were all talking about how tourists were going to be going into space in commercial airliners. If you had give me a hundred to one odds, i would never have won on 12 years. So here is the fact, you know, we live in a planet of gravity 9. 82 meeters squares just low enough to get off the planet. Its hard. Laws of physic make it hard and i know without any question in my heart and soul, youre alive during looking at this is the moment in time, its right here. Its right now. We have incredible people like jeff bezos and elon musk. A bunch of different people ive got in the audience, let me just recognize. I service the cofounder of resources that landed three missions on the martian service. Spirit opportunity in phoenix. [applause] is now ceo and im so proud of having him as a ceo of resources. Another seattle company. Its an amazing time to be alive. Theres enough capital, risktaking capital and we are not going to replicate what happened in the 14960s, u. S. Soviet race. The apolo moment was extraordinary moment in time taken from the future and put in the past but we have the impetus, drive, to open up space because risktakers, reducing the cost of reaching space to the point where we are as a species reaching a velocity. So questions from the floor . Any one . No questions at all . Go ahead. Just a second, we have a microphone for you. Running at you at light speed. [laughter] thank you, sir. Can you repeat the question . You mentioned the tyranny of the rocket, i was curious how much we can scale horizontal take off to lift heavier and heavier vehicles . Its fun to do a physics experiment and its the following, one of my Companies Space adventures have was predecessor to to planetary resources, we flu eight people privately on the capitalistrussian vehicle i should say, a plug in there. [laughter] and because the shuttle, they would never allow that. Its a different story. A different conversation. Its a hub Million Dollars, 1,420,000,000 for a space flight on divided by 3 and thats roughly 40 million a seat. And if you think about what percentage of a cost is the fuel, anybody know the answer . Its less than 1 . Its the fuel, the labor. If you use the vehicle reusable, theoretically you could drop the cost down by a hundred fold. If you wanted to put whats your name . Thomas. If you want to put thomas into space, lets round up the number and say you weigh 50 kilograms, 100 kilograms. So 200 kilograms altitude and if i want to circularize you, 25,000 kilometers per second. If you would go and buy at 1 kilowatts of hour, the cost of you going to orbit is about a hundred bucks. 400,000, but what we need is an economic toning get engine economic and jeff bezos moving industries in space or elon going to mars, the most exciting time ever and a lot of progress to be made. Are there other questions . This one is for peter. You have done so many things in space. The question is which one was the most challenging and what unifies all of those. Oh, god. An 8yearold kid desperate to go to space and dream i will go with nasa as julian says and i meet astronauts who tell me the numbers, your chance of being accepted in astronaut are one and a thousand. Oh, my, god, i can work hard. Even if you get accepted, your chance of flying is only 50 half the restaurants. Penguins because they have wings and dont fly. If you do fly, right, erika, if you do fly, you might fly once or twice in your career. I want to fly like every weekend. [laughter] and so everything has been trying to not get myself into space but create an economic engine that wants to drive us