SpaceShipOne Wins The X-Prize
This morning SpaceShipOne soared over the Mojave desert and into history as the first privately funded craft to make two flights into space within two weeks. This amazing feat won Scaled Composites, the creator of SpaceShipOne, $10 million and the convented X-Prize. A deal has already been inked with Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Atlantic Airways, to commercialize SpaceShipOne’s technology and offer commercial suborbital space flights to the general public. The resulting company is to be called Virgin Galactic and is planned to offer flights for $200,000 starting in 2007. So, start saving your pennies because in a couple of years you can become an astronaut if you have the money.
