Scaled Composites VNR - NO LIBRARY USE 1. Spaceship One takes off onboard White Knight. 2. Spaceship One launches. 3. View from Spaceship One of earth. AP TELEVISION Los Angeles California -4 May 2006 4. Wide of Burt Rutan speaking at International Space Development Conference. 5. Close up of Burt Rutan. 6. Wide of audience. 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Burt Rutan, Spaceship designer "My goal, and everybody, when you get as old as I am and have all this grey hair and you get to sixty, you tend to think, ''Wow, what am I going to do with the rest of my life? What would I like to see happen? What would I like to see occur?'' And I''ve got something pretty ambitious, and that is, I do want to go to the moon in my lifetime. And I want to see affordable travel to the moon in my lifetime." AP TELEVISION Mojave Desert, California - 4 April 2003 13. Close up of Spaceship One. 14. Close up of Spaceship One sign. 15. Close up of White knight taxiing. AP TELEVISION Los Angeles California -4 May 2006 16. Medium of Will Whitehorn the president of Virgin Galactic 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Will Whitehorn, President, Virgin Galactic "Burt Rutan''s prototype, Spaceship One, worked. So, that hurdle was crossed. That was one of the big hurdles. Designing Spaceship Two was relatively easy. We''ve had a lot of input from potential customers, so we''ve been able to design on the basis of what people want, and the most important thing that people want is to have a lot of space so they can move around weightless in the cabin and experience not only seeing the earth, seeing the biosphere, the curvature, the atmosphere -- seeing space, but also to move around." 19. Wide of potential space tourists being photographed 20. Medium of potential space tourists 21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Craig Willan,Virgin Galactic founder "What do I want out of this? Is it just the G-forces? Is it weightlessness? And my expression is, ''Yeah, that''s nice. But the biggest thing is looking out that window.'' That is it." 22. Medium of potential space tourists 23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alan Walton, Virgin Galactic founder "I''m 70 years old, and, to me, I think when you''re old, older, you''ve got really two choices: One is to sort of sit on your hands and wait to deteriorate. Or, two, is to look forward to something so inspiring and awe-inspiring that it gives real meaning to life. And, to me, this is something that I spend everyday thinking about, the excitement of doing it just and doing something that so few people have the chance to do." 24. Medium potential space tourists 25. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tom Higgins, Virgin Galactic founder "You can go out in your car and get killed tomorrow. Provided the risk isn''t a great deal greater than that. No, I don''t have a great deal of fear. I like flying. I fly a small plane. I enjoy aviation. I think it''s a good chance to do something that nobody else in Ireland has ever done before. 26. Medium shot of Burt Rutan 27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Burt Rutan, Spaceship designer "Usually, the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people don''t." AP TELEVISION Mojave Desert, California - 4 April 2003 28. White knight takes off. 29. White knight flying. LEAD IN : For many space enthusiasts, dreams of travelling beyond the Earth''s atmosphere remain unattainable. The technology is still being tested, and the cost of space travel is prohibitive for the vast majority of people. But now a new project is underway which could see sub-orbital tourists leaving earth as early as 2008. STORYLINE: Spaceship One made history in 2004 when it became the first privately-financed manned rocket to reach space. The maiden flight would carry Branson and Rutan, among others, Whitehorn said. Keyword-space You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/9a4e57516ae9ff5e61257d3830f18f2d Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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