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ENCORE\xa0For a half-century, space has been the playground of large, government agencies.\xa0While everyone could dream of becoming an astronaut, few could actually do so.\nThings have changed.\xa0We hear how a geeky son of immigrant parents incentivized the ground-breaking launch of SpaceShipOne, and spawned the commercial rocket industry.\xa0\nAnd while you\u2019re waiting for a ticket to ride, why not build your own satellite to keep tabs on the kids or just check out the back forty?\xa0A CubeSat could be your next basement project.\nAnd the hitherto untold story of how black women mathematicians a half-century ago helped get a man into orbit, and astronauts to the moon.\nGuests:\n\n\nMargot Lee Shetterly\xa0\u2013 Author of\xa0Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.\n\n\n\nSimon \u201cPete\u201d Worden\xa0\u2013 Chairman of the\xa0Breakthrough Prize Foundation\xa0and former Center Director of NASA Ames Research Center\n\n\nJulian Guthrie\xa0\u2013\xa0Journalist and author of\xa0How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight\n\n\n\nEddie Allison\xa0\u2013\xa0Head of Aviation Services, Orbital Access\n\n\nSean League\xa0\u2013\xa0Cofounder and Spacecraft Engineering Director, SpaceFab.US\n\n\n John Gruener\xa0\u2013 Planetary Scientist, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston\xa0\xa0\n\n\nTakanori Shibata\xa0\u2013 Chief Senior Research Scientist and Professor, National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology\xa0\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices