Airlines, Airplanes, Airports

Cheers exploded as SpaceShipOne touched down after returning from space for the second time in two weeks, causing Paul Allen, Burt Rutan, and Mike Melvill to win the Ansari X prize.

This flight changed the world of space travel. Now, it was private and anybody with the money could fly up into space if they wanted to.

SpaceShipOne was built by Scaled Composite and it was funded completely by Paul Allen.  After this, Richard Branson new there was a future in private space travel. He gathered up Burt Rutan and Scaled Composite to start a new airline with certain ties to Virgin Air. Except this airline would not travel on Earth, or at the same speed as normal planes. This “plane” was not even a plane. It was a spaceship, and it would be flown with the airline, of Virgin Galactic. SpaceShipTwo, and WhiteKnightTwo will be the key components to Virgin Galactic because they will carry the paying 20 million dollar passenger up into space for a sub-orbital flight.

Virgin Galatic plans its first flight for 2009, were the deposit will be around 200,000. Many people including celebrities such as the old Star Trek crew are interested in flying with Virgin Galtaic

Other competitors was the Canadian Arrow team, their idea was to have a rocket that would take off from the ground like a normal spaceship. Another idea was the da Vinci project, their idea was to have a helium balloon carry the rocket up and then release it. Both projects were Canadian.

Space travel is the future, and hopefully the price will go down, and the spectacular rockets will lead our men and woman into space.

I feel like this was my weakest post. The problem is I only got to work on it at 10:30 pm because the poer went out and I only regained internet at 10:25. Stay tuned for an excellent post next Friday. I promise, the subject is great and I am sure you will like the topic.

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