SpaceShipOne Wins Ansari X Prize

Credit: WILLIAM G. HARTENSTEIN PHOTOS
Scaled Composites is shifting focus to designing and building suborbital rocket gliders for the new Virgin Galactic space tourism operator, based on its SpaceShipOne design that won the Ansari X Prize last week. Virgin Galactic, a Delaware-incorporated operation started by Virgin Atlantic founder...

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