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SpaceShipOne Wins X-Prize

Aerospace Tuesday, October 5, 2004 . This is a SciScoop post by Chad

SpaceShipOne has successfully completed its second official flight, thus winning the $10 million Ansari X Prize pending official verification. Apparently this flight went much more smoothly than the previous ones.

More info is
here,
here,
and here.

1 Response to SpaceShipOne Wins X-Prize

mtigges

October 5th, 2004 at 10:02 am

“It’ll be the most beautiful thing ever created by man.”

So said Sir Richard Branson commenting on his plans to have Rutan develop a 5 person version of SS1. Read all about it here.

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