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April 05, 2005

California Conquered Space?

    The California Legislature and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger honored the team of SpaceShipOne today in a ceremony at the State Capitol …

    "California has a long history of conquering new competitive frontiers," stated The Honorable Andrea Seastrand, Executive Director of the California Space Authority (CSA), and a participant in the ceremony. "With experience honed in the early years of aviation, California ingenuity and intellectual capital was again on display with the success of SpaceShipOne's flights.

And here I thought Burt Rutan and his team designed, built, and flew SpaceShipOne into suborbital space:

Here’s the story.

Posted by tedb at April 5, 2005 09:36 AM



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