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Branson
and Rutan Form 'The Spaceship Company'
To
Jointly Manufacture and Market Spaceships
for the new Sub-Orbital Personal Spaceflight
Industry
OSHKOSH,
Wis. July 27, 2005: Today,
Sir Richard Branson (Founder, Virgin
Group of Companies) and Burt Rutan
(President, Scaled Composites) announced
their signing of an agreement to form
a new aerospace production company
to build a fleet of commercial sub-orbital
spaceships and launch aircraft. The
new company will own the designs of
the new SpaceShipTwo (SS2) and White
Knight Two (WK2) launch systems that
are now in...
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MORE)
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SpaceShipOne
Wins X-Prize - Breaks X-15 altitude record
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Mojave,
CA: On October 4, 2004,
SpaceShipOne rocketed into history,
becoming the first private manned
spacecraft to exceed an altitude
of 328,000 feet twice within the
span of a 14 day period, thus
claiming the ten million dollar
Ansari X-Prize. (READ
MORE) Multimedia:
Video
Photos
(new!)
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