Russia has taken tourists into space on conventional rockets and last year a company headed by noted u . s . pilot and aircraft designer burt rutan successfully launched its spaceshipone craft into low earth orbit-twice 将旅游者送入太空。去年,美国著名航空伯特鲁坦创办的公司也已经两次成功地将“航天器一号”送入近地轨道。
After flying in space for 3.5 minutes on june 21, 100 kilometers above the earth, spaceshipone landed safely at a runway in mojave desert in california, completing the world's first privately financed manned space flight 6月21日,"太空飞船一号"在距地面100公里的太空飞行了3.5分钟后,安全降落在加利福尼亚莫哈韦沙漠的一个机场跑道上,完成了世界第一次由私人资助的载人太空飞行。
Building on design work that began in 1996, scaled composites began developing a launch aircraft called the white knight, a three-seat rocket plane known as spaceshipone and associated ground operations [ see illustrations on pages 92 to 94 ] 缩尺复合公司以1996年开始进行的设计为基础,发展一架发射飞机白骑士、一架三人座火箭飞机太空船一号,和相关的地面操作系统(见88~90页图)。