Unit 12

Airplane designer Burt Rutan was14 years old when the USSR launched Sputnik1.
He believed that goverment research into space travel would someday mean he too would be able to journey to space.
However the goverment wasn't going to work.
He wes encourage to build his own spaceship by the history of airplane design itself.
A lot of people tried to fling airplane.
The bad designs crashed , the good design flew.
His optimism finally paid off. In 2004 his designed spaceship, spaceship1, successfully entered space and made it back to earth twice in two weeks.
Those were the requirements to win the ten-million-dollar Ansari X prize, a prize designed to encourage the development of private space travel.
Passengers will float weightless in space for six thrilling minutes as they gaze out at space through a large window.