government, but by a company headed by burt rutan, an ingenious aircraft designer. spaceship one was the first privately developed craft to be launched into space, return to earth, be launched again, return to earth. with a human onboard. by doing that in the year 2004, spaceship one won the prize, a prize of $10 million that was posted to encourage commercial development of spacecraft that could be used for space tourism. spaceship one operates as a suborbital craft. it doesn't go into orbit around the earth, but like allen shepherd did in 1961, it goes up, makes a loop into space, and then glides back down to a landing like an airplane would land. there is a mothership that is the actual transporter aircraft, and spaceship one snuggled up under it. the mother ship is the one that flies it around here in the atmosphere. and then it's released from that, and after its release is when the rocket engine egnites and it shoots straight up. spaceship one is a very innovative design in that it has a hybrid rocket that is part liquid propellant and part solid propellant. i

government, but by a company headed by burt rutan, an ingenious aircraft designer. spaceship one was the first privately developed craft to be launched into space, return to earth, be launched again, return to earth. with a human onboard. by doing that in the year 2004, spaceship one won the prize, a prize of $10 million that was posted to encourage commercial development of spacecraft that could be used for space tourism. spaceship one operates as a suborbital craft. it doesn't go into orbit around the earth, but like allen shepherd did in 1961, it goes up, makes a loop into space, and then glides back down to a landing like an airplane would land. there is a mothership that is the actual transporter aircraft, and spaceship one snuggled up under it. the mother ship is the one that flies it around here in the atmosphere. and then it's released from that, and after its release is when the rocket engine egnites and it shoots straight up. spaceship one is a very innovative design in that it has a hybrid rocket that is part liquid propellant and part solid propellant. i