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The Rutan SpaceShipOne Revealed

Posted by michael on from the look-out-below dept.

smartalix writes "Burt Rutan's company, Scaled Composites, announced that they have been developing a commercial manned space program in secret for the past two years. The system consists of a carrier vehicle called the White Knight and a piggyback (actually underslung) orbital spaceplane called SpaceShipOne. My money is on this effort capturing the X Prize." Well, it's pretty, whatever it is. Space.com has a story with pictures for those of you who weren't quick enough to hit scaled.com before it melted.

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  1. Pretty??? by demonbug · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If that thing is pretty, there is no such thing as ugly. Its about as ugly as any aircraft I have seen in the last twenty years.

  2. Hey John. Your flying Toilet will never work. by zymano · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    good luck. It will never work.

    The pictures on your website make your contraption primitive looking.