Fabulous evening as the orbit around october with events rut the month it is aimed ladies who lunch of women who have panels of about space. I encourage you to take a look at the insert that you should have received. All of this programming is of broader effort to highlight the boom of activity happening in space today the of the events tonight you will care about. But were also very much involved in space and doesnt with the reusable rockets or planetary resources and those other working on in space manufacturing. The Seattle Space community is growing and throwing riding endeavours and it is my distinct pleasure to introduce a featured Speaker Author of a new book titled how to make a spaceship. And those who dream to bring space to the masses including dropouts or retirees are billionaires and a determined peak who refused to give up on his dream. 84 the great introduction were having the best day. This is interesting on many levels catholic added now you start to with this and pete
Economist george borhaus examines impact of immigration on u. S. Economy. Astro physicist, explore questions of the universe. American enterprise institutes reports on the decline in the employment of american men. And National Book Award Winning biographer recalls the life of organized crime boss al capone. That is a a few of programs you see on booktv. For the schedule, to to booktv. Org. 72 hours of nonstop books and authors this veterans day weekend. We kick off the threeday weekend with Julian Guthrie and the look at privatized spaceflight. These lovely director chairs. All right. Welcome, everyone. Welcome to the Space Gallery here at museum of flight. My name is jeff nunn. I amed adjunct curator of space history here at the museum. Doing king sends his regards and regrets. He is unfortunately unavailable to be here tonight as he has taken ill. I would like to begin thanking our special featured speaker, author, Julian Guthrie and dave moore. [applause] and also the team from csp
A commercial space plane fell apart during a test fly in california. Photos from the ground show the engine igniting after it was released from the launch plane. One pilot was killed, the other ejected but seriously injured. The ntsb investigation is already under way. Were joined live with more on the failed flight, good evening. Virgin galactic found the aircraft known as spaceship two was under development. He offered condolences and praised the courage of the test pie pilots. We do understand the risks involved, and were not going to push on blindly. To do so would be an insult to all those affected by this tragedy. Reporter the Virgin Galactic spacecraft crashed after what the Company Called an inflight anomaly after a test flight on friday. Were determined to honor the bravery of the pilots and the teams here by learning from this tragedy. Only then can we move forward, united by a collective desire to push the boundaries of human endeavor. Reporter the pilot was killed and the c
This is part of the starbuck strategy to increase u. S. Sales growth and the Ceo Howard Schultz describes it as ecommerce on steroids. Overseeing development of the Android Software using more than 70 of the world smartphones is leaving the company. Andy rubin will be creating an incubator. I spoke with a Silicon Valley recruiter about the shift. Is a lot of action at a startup level. A lot of companies doing really interesting things with relatively small amounts of capital. You dont need to be at google anymore to be at the cutting edge of innovation. Hiring steve schnell, the former Vice President of operations at rival lyft. Schnell left uber with two other executives. They said they left after disagreements with cofounders over how the company was being run. Now to the lead, a spacecraft for sir Richard Bransons Virgin Galactic tourism operator crashed during a test flight in california Mojave Desert killing the copilot and injuring the pilot. An faa spokesperson says Ground Contr
Ago. 2, Richard Branson is working on. Ive got a ticket on spaceship 2. He was going to fly me. He has gone to xcorp now. Arm welcome for brian binnie. [applause] thank you. The private side. I dont take your tax money. We do business our way. Im working on our fourth spaceship. Of my privates availablet military, with a Business Card at the back. Since been 10 years now the xprize flights. Coming up on 11 years. Is cspanten running . Get this on screen. I have written a book about the experiences of the program. A lot of blogs they came out at the time that told pieces but the fun stuff is in here. I kept thinking if i could just that haslf in a city ,ome expertise in books publishing, editing, managing, and i could find myself in a group, a crowd of people that might actually enjoy reading what it is like to explore a brandnew private spaceship, then i thought here is an opportunity. With that said, im going to pass these around. I think there is enough for everybody in the room. Thi