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Rocket Ahead

Jeff Taylor | 12.18.2003 5:06 AM

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On the 100th anniversary of the first flight by Wright brothers, Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites became the first private company to send up a piloted rocket at supersonic speeds.

And unlike the ancient space shuttle, the SS1 is fully reusable -- hint hint.

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Jeff Taylor is a contributing editor at Reason.

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