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Sunday, April 20, 2003

Spaceship for 3 tourists

According to this AP story in the New York Times (registration required) a potential competitor for the $10M X Prize to encourage space tourism may have arrived:

A private manned spaceflight program was unveiled on Friday at a desert airport where it has been in secret development for two years.

The program's developer, the aircraft designer Burt Rutan, displayed a rocket plane called SpaceShipOne and a jet to carry it, the White Knight, in a hangar at Mojave Airport. Mr. Rutan is best known for creating Voyager, the airplane that made the first nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world, in 1986.

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