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Space Tourism Captain Matt Rardon Space Mission and Launch Operations ASCI 512 Introduction History  SpaceCub  Ansari X  SpaceShipOne  Hybrid Rocket  Flight Profile  The Next Projects  History  On April 28, 2001, Dennis Tito, multimillionaire, became the first space tourist in a Russian Soyuz capsule. SpaceCub  In 1994, a well-educated science fiction writer named Geoffrey Landis proposed that it might be possible to develop an inexpensive rocket that could take a private pilot to the edge of space Ansari X  The SpaceCub was never developed, but, in 1995, Doctor David Diamantis, an entrepenuer in spacerelated industries, propsed an X Prize of $10 million dollars to anyone that could develop a completely industryfunded craft that could reach the edge of space. Spaceship One   On June 21, 2004 Mike Melvill became the first civilian to pilot a craft into space. Built by Burt Rutan and financed by Paul Allen, SpaceShipOne made history as the first manned, private spaceship The White Knight Hybrid Rocket Hybrid Rocket    Uses Nitrous Oxide and HTPB (tire rubber) The propellant comes together in an eight-foot combustion chamber, where the liquid oxidizer is converted into a gas, then ignited by small pyros to start the engine SpaceShipOne pilots can shut down the vehicle's engine by closing a valve though which nitrous oxide enters the fuel chamber. Flight Profile Future Projects QUESTIONS? Sources       http://www.space.com/spacetourism/ http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sso_ruta n_archive.html http://www.dm.net/~geoffreylandis/spacecub.html http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal100/ss1.ht m http://uashome.alaska.edu/~jsnap1/Physics_Proj ect/rocket.htm

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