Breaking News: Trailblazing Private Spaceship is Airborne
Published: Wed Sep 29th, 2004Source: www.space.com
MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA – A privately built and financed rocketship departed here today, headed for the first run at back-to-back flights to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize. The $10 million X Prize goes to the first privately built vehicle that can haul a pilot and two passengers to the edge of space, then repeat the feat within two weeks.
SpaceShipOne is under the controls of a single pilot, but is weighted as if three people were aboard. For the record setting pair of flights, the vehicle will be boosted by a larger, stronger engine than that used for its last piloted flight on June 21.
If today's flight is successful, SpaceShipOne must then repeat the feat by Oct. 13.
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