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Space tourism advocates eye suborbital joy rides by end of the decade SpaceShipOne captured the $10 million Ansari X Prize in 2004 by reaching space SpaceShipTwo is being designed out of the public eye, as is White Knight Two Branson had heralded 2008 as the "Year of the Spaceship" LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Aerospace engineers have been holed up in a Mojave Desert hangar for four years, fashioning a commercial spaceship to loft rich tourists some 62 miles above Earth. SpaceShipOne comes in for a landing after making its suborbital flight in Mojave, California, in 2004. Now the wraps come partially off the top-secret project. British billionaire Sir Richard Branson and American aerospace designer Burt Rutan are due Monday to show off their mothership, which is designed to air launch a passenger-toting spaceship out of... [read full story]
