Posted on 07/27/2006 6:14:43 PM PDT by KevinDavis
If you're a fan of SpaceShipOne, the world's first privately developed manned spacecraft, it's pretty hard to beat last year's act at the EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh, Wis., when the historic rocket plane was flown in for an appearance on the way to the Smithsonian. But today, AirVenture is unveiling a replica in its Oshkosh museum that can do something the original is no longer able to accomplish.
Don't expect the replica to zoom out of the place where it's hung in the AirVenture Museum to the edge of outer space, like its forebear did back in 2004 to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize. But the SpaceShipClone will be able to fold its wings into the "shuttlecock feather" configuration that SpaceShipOne used during its descent.
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com ...
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