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Paul Allen Confirmed as SpaceShipOne's Sponsor

Posted by michael on from the sugar-daddy dept.

Shafe writes "Space.com confirmed suspicions that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was the secret investor in Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne, which completed a successful supersonic flight on the same day as the centennial of flight. Allen hopes Rutan's ship will win the $10 million X-Prize to help kickstart private manned space flight."

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  1. Space... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ... the final frontier?

  2. I guess this means... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ...we'll have to wait for SpaceShipThreePointOne before we get something worth flying.

  3. windows or *nix by Dreadlord · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I wonder whether SpaceShipOne project computers run Windows, it would be extremely ironic to have *nix computers in a project for M$ co-founder...

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