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Everything Space
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Written by Newstream
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Jun 24, 2004 at 11:24 PM |
June 2004 (Newstream) -- Gentex Corporation here has provided its most advanced lightweight flight helmets and oxygen masks for the aircrew of the world's first private-sector, sub-orbital space flight scheduled for June 21. The equipment was specified by Scaled Composites, LLC, a California-based aerospace company founded by Burt Rutan, who designed the spacecraft. Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, is funding the project.
 Rutan's prototype SpaceShipOne will be launched from the Mojave Civilian Aerospace Test Center, a commercial airport in the California desert, and is expected to reach an altitude of 60 miles. In a test flight last month, it was the first privately funded spacecraft to reach a record altitude of 40 miles.
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