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SpaceShipOne Touches the Edge of Space

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Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.

A few of the words

RUTAN
Designer Burt Rutan founded Scaled Composites and drew every curve of SpaceShipOne — its feathered re-entry system was entirely his invention.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
FEATHER
SpaceShipOne's tail could rotate upward in flight, creating drag that slowed and stabilized the craft during re-entry without any heat shield.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SUBORBITAL
The June 21, 2004 flight was suborbital — the craft arced above the 62-mile Kármán line boundary and then fell back, never circling the Earth.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SCALED
Scaled Composites, headquartered in Mojave, California, built the vehicle and managed all flight operations for the historic 2004 mission.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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SpaceShipOne Touches the Edge of Space: a free large-print word search

SpaceShipOne word search — free and large-print. Relive the morning a feather-light craft and a daring pilot punched through the edge of the sky.

About SpaceShipOne Touches the Edge of Space

On June 21, 2004, a small, white, winged rocket plane called SpaceShipOne climbed above 62 miles altitude over the Mojave Desert — and with that, the first privately funded, privately piloted craft crossed the boundary of space. Test pilot Mike Melvill rode it up under the belly of its carrier aircraft, then lit the hybrid rocket motor and arced into the black. The whole venture was built by Scaled Composites, designed by Burt Rutan, and paid for entirely without government money — proof that the long dream of civilian spaceflight could lift off from a desert runway.

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