Design News - March 7, 2005

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Here's the first thing you need to know about the engineering behind Scaled Composite's Ansari X Prize-winning SpaceShipOne (SS1): The team was in it for the fun. Okay, the prize was certainly an incentive, as was the team's shared dream of civilian flights to space.

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