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SpaceShipOne, by Dick Rutan and co-pilot Jeana Yeager, . became the first aircraft to fly around the world nonstop without refueling. Twelve years later, Rutan became the first pilot to fly X-Prize hardware: ., a twin-jet canard aircraft (Figure 3.2).

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SpaceShipOne,here it is today. A legend in the aerospace engineering arena, Rutan has a record of blazing his own trail and pulling off impossible ventures, often by designing very successful small aircraft. In 1986, he stunned the aviation world by launching ., a hand-built airplane which was little more than a

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SpaceShipTwo: VSS ,,5. You may be wondering why the image is included in a chapter about commercial spaceflight but this section explains all. After the whirlwind surrounding the X-Prize had died down, there was a plan to continue flying SpaceShipOne on a regular basis. In fact Rutan planned to fly it once a week for f

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Pilot-Astronauts, Passengers, and Personnel,job announcement from Virgin Galactic seeking pilot-astronauts. The unique opportunity (see sidebar) initially involved working as part of the WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo spaceflight system test and development team in Mojave, California, before taking the experience gained from that program to