Google Gets it Own SpaceShipOne
by Gilad on October 24th, 2006
Over this past weekend, rumors have been floating around that Google may have purchased SpaceShipOne to be presented in Building 43 of it’s headquarters. These rumors were proven to be only semi-true, as Google had only bought a full-scaled replica of the spaceship.
For those of you wondering what the hell is SpaceShipOne:
SpaceShipOne made headlines in 2004 when it won won the $10 million Ansari X prize. To win the prize, aerospace designer Burt Rutan and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen led the first private team to build and launch a spacecraft capable of carrying three people to 100 kilometers above the earth’s surface twice within two weeks. In 2005 Rutan and Richard Branson formed a new company to produce a new ship, called SpaceShipTwo, for a new spaceline company, Virgin Galactic.
FYI: You can now own your own SpaceShipOne replica (Yea same as Google’s) here.
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