SPACESHIPONE WILL GO TO SMITHSONIAN.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer MOJAVE - SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded and privately developed manned spacecraft This is a list of manned spacecraft (including space stations) sorted by manufacturer/operator and series in chronological order. Operational spacecraft China National Space Administration
The red, white and blue rocket plane rocket plane n. 1. An aircraft powered by one or more rocket engines. 2. An aircraft designed to carry and launch rockets. will hang between the Wright Flyer and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis Spirit of St. Louis Charles Lindbergh’s plane. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 287] See : Aviation in the Washington, D.C., museum's main exhibit hall. Before it goes to Washington, SpaceShipOne will be flown by its White Knight White Knight falls off his horse every time it stops. [Br. Lit.: Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass] See : Awkwardness White Knight invents clever objects that never work. [Br. Lit. mothership to the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual Oshkosh, Wis., air show, a gathering of home-built aircraft enthusiasts. ``We'll let people touch it and feel it because once it's hung up there (in Washington), it's out of reach,'' builder Burt Rutan said of the Oshkosh show. Preliminary plans call for White Knight and SpaceShipOne to be at the Oshkosh AirVenture for the event's entire seven-day run July 25-31. ``There is no more fitting place for these cutting-edge aircraft to appear together than at EAA EAA Experimental Aircraft Association EAA European Aluminium Association (Brussels, Belgium) EAA European Acoustics Association EAA Export Administration Act EAA Everglades Agricultural Area EAA European Association of Archaeologists AirVenture, the annual celebration of aviation's spirit of innovation,'' Tom Poberezny, EAA president and AirVenture chairman, said in a statement announcing the two crafts' appearance. ``SpaceShipOne and White Knight show where the dreams of flight can lead us, to a place where not even the sky is the limit.'' Financed by billionaire Paul G. Allen and built at Rutan's Scaled Composites company in Mojave, SpaceShipOne made history last year with the first three private manned spaceflights. The SpaceShipOne team won the $10 million Ansari X Prize The Ansari X PRIZE was a space competition in which the X PRIZE Foundation offered a US$10,000,000 prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks. when it made two flights into space within a two-week period, with flights on Sept. 29 and Oct. 4. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) SpaceShipOne, seen here atop the White Knight mothership, is going to the Smithsonian Institute's Air and Space Museum. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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