Space Tourism Goes Off with a Bang; Privately Owned Craft Buckles but Survives Historic Flight
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THE world's first privately-funded trip to space went with a bang yesterday, as a section of the experimental spacecraft making the historic journey buckled mid-flight.
Despite the hitch, the landing of SpaceShipOne on a desert airfield in California shortly after dawn promised to open up a new era of space tourism.See the full content of this document
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Space Tourism Goes Off with a Bang; Privately Owned Craft Buckles but Survives Historic Flight
Its journey to 62 miles above the surface of the earth - the somewhat arbitrary point at which space officially begins - marked the first commercial space flight, with t...
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