FAA Licenses Rutan Rocket for X-prize Bid
Credit: SCALED COMPOSITES
The FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation has issued its first license for a suborbital manned rocket to Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites, clearing the way for the Mojave, Calif.-based company to bid for the $10 million X-prize this year. Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne rocket glider came a...
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