In Brief: FAA issues suborbital flight license to Scaled Composites

LICENSED TO FLY: The Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation has issued the world's first license for a suborbital manned rocket flight, to Scaled Composites of Mojave, Calif. The FAA license is required for U.S. contenders for the X Prize, a $10 million award for...

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