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Wisconsin crowd sees spaceship launcher fly
Hundreds of earthlings turned their faces to the sky Monday to see an airplane built to launch a ship into space, watching the gleaming white craft soar overhead.
The twin-fuselage craft named WhiteKnightTwo, looking like two planes connected at the wing tips, circled the runway several times before touching down at the Experimental Aircraft Association's Air Venture annual gathering.

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WhiteKnightTwo makes world debut at AirVenture 2009
AirVenture attendees should prepare to be dazzled on opening day when WhiteKnightTwo, the private space tourism vehicle to beat all others, makes a fly-by and landing on the grounds.
WhiteKnightTwo, which is making its world debut at AirVenture 2009, is the mothership that carries SpaceShipTwo tourists to suborbital space.

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Sir Richard Branson and Burt Rutan have unveiled their WhiteKnight Two  (WK2) carrier aircraft, nicknamed "EVE",  that is designed to carry the smaller suborbital SpaceShip Two.

Virgin Galactic rolls out mothership & prepares for test flights
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Virgin Galactic has released the final design of the launch system that will take fare-paying passengers into space.
It is based on the X-Prize-winning SpaceShipOne concept - a rocket ship that is lifted initially by a carrier plane before blasting skywards.

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SpaceShipTwo Unveiling Live Coverage

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Aircraft designer Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne rocket plane made history in 2004 when it made three flights into space, two of them five days apart, to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize as the first privately financed, privately built spacecraft.
Now Rutan is developing a fleet of SpaceShipTwo spacecraft that will be three times as large and able to carry six passengers each on suborbital spaceflights that reach 63 miles above the Earth.
While the SpaceShipTwo craft remain under wraps at Rutan's Scaled Composite hangars in Mojave, 100 people - dubbed Founders - have paid British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic spaceline the $200,000 ticket price in full, and thousands of others have registered as potential passengers.

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