The aircraft is part of a collaboration between engineer Burt Rutan, who made it into space back in 2004, winning the $10 million Ansari X prize, and the British billionaire, who started his fortune flogging music to limeys back in the Seventies. The twin-fuselage plane doesn't actually make it into space, however. Instead, she climbs to around 50,000 feet before blasting the project's spaceship, the adventurously-named SpaceShipTwo, into space at four times the speed of sound. [Read more...]
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