1) Experimental vehicle
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SpaceShipOne is a suborbital air-launched spaceplane that completed the first manned private spaceflight in 2004. That same year, it won the US$10 million Ansari X Prize and was immediately retired from active service. Its mother ship was named `White Knight`. Both craft were developed and flown by Mojave Aerospace Ventures, which was a joint ve.....
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(from the article `Physical Sciences`) SpaceShipOne (SS1) captured headlines as it claimed the Ansari X Prize. The prize, founded by American space visionary Peter Diamandis, was modeled ... ...suborbital flights that offer a few minutes of weightlessness and a broad view of Earth. In 2004, in response to a prize competition initiated i...
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A space plane that, on Jun. 21, 2004, became the first private piloted craft in history to reach the edge of space – an altitude of 100 kilometers (64 miles). It was designed and built by Burt Rutan and his Californian company, Scaled Composites. The rocket plane, developed in just a few years...
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