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Rutan personally designed their craft, SpaceShipOne, a vehicle as improbable as it is revolutionary. The size of a small biplane, SpaceShipOne is a shell of woven graphite glued onto a rocket motor that runs on laughing gas and rubber. The nose is punctuated by portholes, like an ocean liner. Inside, the critical instrument is a Ping-Pong ball decorated with a smiley face and attached to the cabin with a piece of string, which goes slack when the pilot reaches the zero-gravity of suborbital space...
Despite its Flash Gordon looks and unorthodox design, SpaceShipOne was able to more than match Shepard's trailblazing journey. In June it became the first privately funded spacecraft. In October it clinched the $10 million Ansari X Prize as the first such craft to travel to space twice in two weeks. Thanks to the backing of two starry-eyed billionaires...
...honeymoon if he won a second term. "I don't think he has a lot of respect in the Senate among Democrats," said Reid, who hasn't forgotten the hardball legislative tactics Bush and Senate Republicans used in his first term, like shutting Democratic leaders out of negotiations to craft the prescription-drug and Medicare-reform bill Congress passed...
...country are devoted to the practice, up from just a few hundred five years ago. Diehards attend scrapbooking cruises and gather in online chat rooms to trade advice on overcoming "journaler's block" and remedying puffy eyes. There are magazines and even a "master's" program dedicated to the craft. "People are seeing that life is short, and they're preserving family memories for their children," says Marianne Madsen, managing editor of Creating Keepsakes, the industry's largest magazine...
...passion was tougher on my family. I insisted on playing Dylan in the car, and although they liked a few songs, it was the voice that led my brother to shout “turn that shit off,” and my dad to craft a dead-on Dylan impression that sent us all into hysterics—but worried me by its implied disrespect...