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Who invented SpaceShipOne?
Scaled Composites
SpaceShipOne/Manufacturers
Who funded SpaceShipOne?
Paul G. Allen
SpaceShipOne is the world’s first private manned spacecraft. In 1996, the X Prize Foundation offered $10 million to the first civilian team to launch a low-cost spaceship into suborbital flight twice within two weeks. The SpaceShipOne project was sponsored by philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen.
How many times did SpaceShipOne go to space?
SpaceShipOne arced through space for about 3 minutes and then glided back to Earth without making a complete orbit around the planet, otherwise known as a suborbital flight. SpaceShipOne made 17 flights in all. Spaceflight was achieved on the 15th flight.
What was one of the toughest parts of Stinemetze’s job?
From SpaceShipOne: According to the passage, what was one of the hardest parts of Stinemetze’s job? Spaceship one’s engine ignited right by the mother ship. What is the meaning of ignited?
How much did it cost to build spaceship one?
Allen provided the funding of approximately US$25 million. Rutan has indicated that ideas about the project began as early as 1994 and the full-time development cycle time to the 2004 accomplishments was about three years….
| SpaceShipOne | |
|---|---|
| Developed into | SpaceShipTwo |
| Career | |
| Preserved at | National Air and Space Museum |
Who owns a spaceship?
The Spaceship Company (TSC) is a British/American spacecraft manufacturing company that was founded by Burt Rutan and Richard Branson in mid-2005 and was jointly owned by Virgin Group (70%) and Scaled Composites (30%) until 2012 when Virgin Galactic became the sole owner….The Spaceship Company.
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Website | spaceshipcompany.com |
Who was the first person to do a spacewalk?
cosmonaut Alexei Leonov
Ed White became the first American to go for a walk in space. The feat came ten weeks after Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov conducted the first spacewalk.
How did Kalpana Chawla become an astronaut?
After becoming a naturalised US citizen in April 1991, Chawla applied for the NASA astronauts corps. She was selected in December 1994 and reported to the Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1995 as an astronaut candidate in Group 15.
Who did Kalpana Chawla marry?
Jean-Pierre Harrisonm. 1983–2003
Kalpana Chawla/Spouse
Is the spaceship company still in business?