How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight is a 2016 non-fiction book by journalist Julian Guthrie about the origins of the X Prize Foundation and Peter Diamandis, the first X Prize, the Ansari X Prize and Anousheh Ansari, the entrants into that suborbital spaceflight competition, and the winning team, Mojave Aerospace Ventures of Vulcan Inc., Paul G. Allen, Scaled Composites, Burt Rutan, and their platform of Tier One of SpaceShipOne and WhiteKnightOne.

It chronologically starts with the influences that weighed upon Peter Diamandis, and his progression into the space industry.

The team that is focused on most is that which won the X Prize in 2004, the one headed by Paul Allen and Burt Rutan, of SpaceShipOne.

[9] How to Make a Spaceship was released in September 2016, in trade paperback, hardcover, audio book and e-book formats.

[11] Gregg Easterbrook's review in The Wall Street Journal said the book "offers a rousing anthem to the urge to explore".