SpaceShipOne coming to EAA this summer!
Maybe you've heard this news by now, but in case you haven't:
SpaceShipOne, the world's first successful civilian-built spaceship that captured the world's attention last fall by winning the $10 million Ansari X Prize, is coming to Oshkosh! The history-making spacecraft and its carrier aircraft, White Knight, have been confirmed for arrival at EAA AirVenture, July 25-31 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh.
This is the ONLY planned public appearance of these two aircraft in one place. Preliminary plans call for White Knight and SpaceShipOne to be at EAA AirVenture for the event's entire seven-day run. After arriving on Monday, July 25, the aircraft will be available for up-close viewing on the main AeroShell Square showcase ramp until their departure on Sunday, July 31.
Burt Rutan, the airplanes' designer, and Mike Melvill, who last September flew the first of two missions required to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize for civilian spaceflight, will lead a delegation from Rutan's company, Scaled Composites, at EAA AirVenture. Rutan and Melvill, both longtime EAA members, hosted a number of extremely popular presentations at EAA AirVenture 2004, shortly after SpaceShipOne's successful test flight to the outer edge of Earth's atmosphere.
Investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen partnered with Rutan's Scaled Composites team to form one of more than a dozen groups that sought the Ansari X Prize, awarded to the first civilian group to build and fly a single spacecraft to a height of 100 kilometers (62 miles) twice in a two-week period. On September 29, 2004, Melvill flew SpaceShipOne to that height and Brian Binnie followed up with the second flight on October 5 over the southern California desert.
You can find out more about the event at www.airventure.org.
SpaceShipOne, the world's first successful civilian-built spaceship that captured the world's attention last fall by winning the $10 million Ansari X Prize, is coming to Oshkosh! The history-making spacecraft and its carrier aircraft, White Knight, have been confirmed for arrival at EAA AirVenture, July 25-31 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh.
This is the ONLY planned public appearance of these two aircraft in one place. Preliminary plans call for White Knight and SpaceShipOne to be at EAA AirVenture for the event's entire seven-day run. After arriving on Monday, July 25, the aircraft will be available for up-close viewing on the main AeroShell Square showcase ramp until their departure on Sunday, July 31.
Burt Rutan, the airplanes' designer, and Mike Melvill, who last September flew the first of two missions required to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize for civilian spaceflight, will lead a delegation from Rutan's company, Scaled Composites, at EAA AirVenture. Rutan and Melvill, both longtime EAA members, hosted a number of extremely popular presentations at EAA AirVenture 2004, shortly after SpaceShipOne's successful test flight to the outer edge of Earth's atmosphere.
Investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen partnered with Rutan's Scaled Composites team to form one of more than a dozen groups that sought the Ansari X Prize, awarded to the first civilian group to build and fly a single spacecraft to a height of 100 kilometers (62 miles) twice in a two-week period. On September 29, 2004, Melvill flew SpaceShipOne to that height and Brian Binnie followed up with the second flight on October 5 over the southern California desert.
You can find out more about the event at www.airventure.org.
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