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Branson and Rutan Form 'The Spaceship Company'
To Jointly Manufacture and Market Spaceships for the new Sub-Orbital
Personal Spaceflight Industry

OSHKOSH, Wis. July 27, 2005: Today, Sir Richard Branson (Founder,
Virgin Group of Companies) and Burt Rutan (President, Scaled
Composites) announced their signing of an agreement to form a new
aerospace production company to build a fleet of commercial sub-orbital
spaceships and launch aircraft. The new company will own the designs of
the new SpaceShipTwo (SS2) and White Knight Two (WK2) launch systems
that are now in... (READ MORE)

SpaceShipOne Wins X-Prize - Breaks X-15 altitude record

Mojave, CA: On October 4, 2004, SpaceShipOne rocketed into history,
becoming the first private manned spacecraft to exceed an altitude of
328,000 feet twice within the span of a 14 day period, thus claiming
the ten million dollar Ansari X-Prize. (READ MORE) Multimedia: Video
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