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July 27, 2005
Branson and Rutan Form 'The Spaceship Company'
To Jointly Manufacture and Market Spaceships for the new Sub-Orbital Personal Spaceflight Industry
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Oct 04, 2004
SpaceShipOne flies again within 14 days - wins $10M Ansari X-Prize
Oct 01, 2004
Burt Rutan clarifies roll condition on X-Prize Flight 1
Sept 29, 2004
SpaceShipOne Surpasses 100 Km on First X-Prize Flight
Sept 27, 2004
Virgin Group signs deal with Paul Allen's Mojave Aerospace Ventures; licensing SpaceShipOne technology to develop the world's first commercial space tourism operator
July 27, 2004
First X-Prize flight date announced (article no longer exists)
June 21, 2004
SpaceShipOne Makes History: First Private Manned Mission to Space
June 20, 2004
Press Kit for June 21 Space Launch
June 2, 2004
Historic Space Launch Attempt Scheduled for June 21
May 13, 2004
Another successful Tier One program test flight
Dec 18, 2003
Paul G. Allen confirmed as long rumored sponsor of SpaceShipOne
Dec 17, 2003
SpaceShipOne breaks the sound barrier
Nov 10, 2003
Burt Rutan named "Business leader in aerospace" on the Scientific American 50
Sept 18, 2003
Scaled Composites completes the development phase for the SpaceShipOne rocket propulsion system and selects a motor component vendor for the flight test phase.
April 18, 2003
Scaled Composites unveils commercial manned space program

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