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Byline: Brad Stone
Monday, in the salty desert flats of Mojave, 95 miles north of L.A., a team of aero-space engineers plans to challenge 50 years of thinking about space travel. Their company, Scaled Composites, intends to launch SpaceShipOne with a lone civilian pilot on board. The sleek craft is supposed to take off at dawn, climb 10 miles, detach from its carrier airplane,...
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