How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight audiobook runs 16.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Rob Shapiro (about 11.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 16.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 34 days |
| 1 hour / day | 17 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 12 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 16.6 hours, it runs longer than 97% of the 3,827 Computers & Technology audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Rob Shapiro
Rob Shapiro narrates 195 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,128 hours in all.
- The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town
- Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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- The Killer
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
About as long, on the Computers & Technology shelf
95 Computers & Technology audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight is an audiobook by Julian Guthrie: a 16.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Rob Shapiro, released September 20, 2016, on the Computers & Technology and Astronomy & Physics shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Rob Shapiro
- Released
- September 20, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Computers & Technology, Astronomy & Physics, Biography & Memoir
- ISBN
- 9780735288225
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight audiobook?
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight runs 16.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.1 hours.
Is the How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight audiobook free?
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Who narrates How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight?
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight is narrated by Rob Shapiro.
Is How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.1 hours, saving 5.5 hours.