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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. /.'ed by bigirondawg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow... already slashdotted. Anybody have the Google cache?

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  2. Re:Mirrors? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    cache? you mean those ads that said someone could tell where i have been going on my computer were true??!!

    i ... uh ... gotta go

  3. Re:Whahhh? by TopShelf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What's the old Pink Floyd song? "Point me at the Sky and Let It Fly..."

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  4. Lets Just Hope... by LordYUK · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That the ship holds up under strain better than their webserver...

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