The author of a new book says the race to private space exploration began with Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. Julian Guthrie wrote How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race and the Birth of Private Spaceflight to tell the story of the Xprize and the teams competing for the $10 million prize. According to Guthrie, Peter Diamandis, a Greek-American engineer, physician, and entrepreneur came up with the idea of a contest to spur private industry to pursue space flight