Popular Science Article On Burt Rutan...
I'm sure everyone already knows about this article but
just thought I'd pass it along anyway. (There is also
an article concerning the possibilities -or not- of
human space flight to Mars, mostly
"Burt Rutan Builds Your Ride to Space"
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviation/article/0,12543,458498,00.html
Burt Rutan wants to fly into space every Tuesday for
five months, to test a concept and prove a point. And
he wants to do it soon: He may make the first flight
before the December 17 Wright brothers centenary.
Chances are, he'll succeed.
That was the buzz in Mojave, California, when Rutan,
one of the world's most innovative aircraft designers,
recently unveiled what could become the first
successful privately funded manned space program, a
system composed of two startlingly original vehicles:
the insect-like White Knight mother ship, and
SpaceShipOne, a winged, rocket-propelled pod slung
underneath. The pod will be carried by the airplane to
50,000 feet, then detach and rocket three occupants to
suborbital altitude?more than 300,000 feet. There they
will experience a brief period of weightlessness and
some amazing views before heading back to Earth.
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