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    The Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) was an air-launched suborbital spaceplane type designed for space tourism. It was manufactured by The...
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    The Scaled Composites Model 348 White Knight Two (WK2) is a quadjet cargo aircraft that was used to lift the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) spacecraft to release...
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    companion SpaceShipOne, an experimental spaceplane. The White Knight and SpaceShipOne were designed by Burt Rutan and manufactured by Scaled Composites, a private...
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  • of non-metal, composite materials, and for winning the Ansari X Prize with its experimental spacecraft SpaceShipOne. Scaled Composites was established...
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  • SpaceShipTwo". Space.com. SpaceShipThree revealed?, FlightGlobal Hyperbola, Rob Coppinger, 29 Feb 2008 "Northrop buys the rest of Scaled Composites"...
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    of Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo February 9, 2011 — First flight of Scaled Composites Firebird March 30, 2011 — First flight of Scaled Composites BiPod...
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    registration N339SS, was the sole Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo test vehicle. It was the first of the five SpaceShipTwo craft planned by Virgin Galactic...
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    The successor ships are named SpaceShipTwo and White Knight Two. The name of the joint venture between Virgin Group and Scaled Composites is called The...
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  • RocketMotorTwo (RM2) is a family of hybrid rocket engines developed for the Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane. The first-generation...
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    The Scaled Composites Model 281 Proteus is a tandem-wing high-altitude long-endurance aircraft designed by Burt Rutan to investigate the use of aircraft...
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    The Scaled Composites Model 351 Stratolaunch or Roc is an aircraft built by Scaled Composites for Stratolaunch Systems to carry air-launch-to-orbit (ALTO)...
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    Tier One was a Scaled Composites' 1990s–2004 program of suborbital human spaceflight using the reusable spacecraft SpaceShipOne and its launcher White...
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  • Mojave Aerospace Ventures (category Scaled Composites)
    Rutan's Scaled Composites. In 2004, it signed a deal with Virgin Galactic to develop the Virgin SpaceShip, a suborbital spacecraft, for space tourism...
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    VSS Enterprise (category Scaled Composites)
    Enterprise (tail number: N339SS) was the first SpaceShipTwo (SS2) spaceplane, built by Scaled Composites for Virgin Galactic. As of 2004, it was planned...
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    The Scaled Composites Model 81 Catbird is a high-efficiency five-seat single-engine all-composite general aviation aircraft designed by Burt Rutan. It...
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  • SpaceShipTwo, and then TSC began production of the follow-on vehicles beginning in 2008. In 2012, after Northrop Grumman acquired Scaled Composites,...
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    The Scaled Composites ARES is a demonstrator aircraft built by Scaled Composites. ARES is an acronym for Agile Responsive Effective Support. In 1981, U...
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    returned to the spaceport and landed safely at 08:14. Scaled Composites, the makers of SpaceShipOne, announced the planned spaceflight on June 2, 2004...
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    MotherShip (VMS) Eve (Tail number: N348MS) is a carrier mothership for Virgin Galactic and launch platform for SpaceShipTwo-class Virgin SpaceShips. VMS...
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    Burt Rutan (category Space advocates)
    components for SpaceShipTwo, but as of August 2007[update] Scaled Composites remained dedicated to perfecting the design of SpaceShipTwo. Virgin continues...
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    Michael Alsbury (category Scaled Composites)
    American test pilot for Scaled Composites. He died on October 31, 2014, during test flight PF04 of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise. Michael...
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  • Scaled Composites Model 133-4.62 ATTT, or Advanced Technology Tactical Transport was a technology demonstration project built by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scaled Composites Triumph. Goleta Air and Space Museum Scaled Composites Model 143 "Triumph" Gallery Selected image...
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  • The Spaceship Company (category Scaled Composites)
    three WhiteKnightTwo aircraft and five SpaceShipTwo rocket planes. Since the first WK2 and the first SS2 were built by Scaled Composites, TSC had responsibility...
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    The Scaled Composites Sierra (Model 401) is an American experimental aircraft, designed and produced by Scaled Composites of Mojave Spaceport, Mojave...
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    The Scaled Composites Pond Racer (Company designation Model 158) was a twin-engine twin-boom aircraft developed for Bob Pond by Burt Rutan and his company...
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    Peter Siebold (category Scaled Composites Tier One program)
    the Scaled Composites astronaut team. He is their Director of Flight Operations, and was one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo, the...
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    second by October 13, 2004, in order to win. Scaled Composites aimed to be able to fly three times within the two weeks in order to allow for a failed flight...
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    several logos for the flight. These were: Scaled Composites "SpaceShipOne: a Paul G. Allen project" on SpaceShipOne "White Knight" on White Knight Virgin...
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    1996, a contract was awarded to Scaled Composites, Inc., of Mojave, Calif., for the construction of three full-scale atmospheric test airframes. The first...
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