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Historic blast-off for first private spaceship
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A SMALL rocket plane will power into a steep climb over
California's Mojave desert later this month and, all going well, fly
into history as the first private manned space vehicle.
The 25ft-long SpaceShipOne, developed by the pioneering aerospace
company Scaled Composites, will soar into sub-orbital space, 62 miles
above the Earth, in a bid to be the first non-government built and
sponsored piloted craft to leave the atmosphere.
The folding-wing rocket plane has already taken commercial space
travel some 40 miles closer to reality - on 13 May, piloted by Mike
Melvill, it attained 211,400ft, ...
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