{"id":18,"date":"2004-04-07T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=18"},"modified":"2004-04-07T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T22:18:00","slug":"feds-give-private-spaceship-go-ahead-to-expand-flight-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Feds Give Private Spaceship Go-Ahead to Expand Flight Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Space.com<\/a>
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By Leonard David<\/b>
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Senior Space Writer
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posted: 02:00 pm ET 07 April 2004
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The Federal Aviation Administration’s Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation (FAA\/AST) has given license approval to Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, permitting the firm to expand flight testing of SpaceShipOne — a privately-financed rocket plane to carry passengers to suborbital altitude.
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SpaceShipOne, built by Scaled Composites is being led by aircraft designer Burt Rutan, who heads the company. The rocket plane and its carrier mothership, the White Knight, were unveiled on April 18, 2003. Since that time, the craft has undergone extensive piloted glide tests and one powered flight. Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Space.com By Leonard David Senior Space Writer posted: 02:00 pm ET 07 April 2004 The Federal Aviation Administration’s Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation (FAA\/AST) has given license approval to Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, permitting the firm to expand flight testing of SpaceShipOne — a privately-financed rocket plane to carry passengers to suborbital … Continue reading “Feds Give Private Spaceship Go-Ahead to Expand Flight Testing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":111,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=111","url_meta":{"origin":18,"position":0},"title":"Lunar Eclipse Wednesday to Have Easy Viewing Hours","author":"Jorah","date":"October 23, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"John Roach for National Geographic News October 21, 2004 \"Just in time for the Halloween season, the moon Wednesday will treat us to its most famous trick: changing from bright white to reddish as it passes deeply through Earth's shadow. 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