Welcome to my site on
White Knight, and SpaceShipOne, both products of Scaled Composites,
winners of the Ansari X-Prize. Here I will talk about SpaceShipOne,
the first non-government funded craft to make it into space, and
White Knight, a twin turbo high altitude research aircraft that
carried SpaceShipOne to launch altitude.
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Scaled Composites is
an Aerospace and specialty components development company. It is
located in Mojave, California. They are the company that created
the record breaking aircraft SpaceShipOne and White Knight. They
also created Global Flyer, the first airplane to fly non-stop around
the world, ARES, ROTON, and ATTT.
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Scaled Composites was
founded in 1982 by Burt Rutan
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Brian, Paul, and Burt Rutan (Right) |
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Tier One:
Tier one is the name of the privately funded space program that
was started by Scaled Composites on April 18th 2003.
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Click Here to view the April 18th 2003 Tier
One unveiling message. |
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