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Article: Space Flight FOR SALE
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- Plane and Pilot
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- December 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Werner Publishing Corporation Dec 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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HOW VIRGIN GALACTIC AND SCALED COMPOSITES ARE REWRITING THE RULES OF SPACE TRAVEL
While most little children around the world were being read to sleep with soothing fairy tales, Lina Borozdina was getting tucked in for the night with stories of space travel. Her father would sit next to her bed and conjure up wild tales of how his daughter would stow away in a rocket bound for space, only to be discovered when zero gravity betrayed her and caused her to float out into the cabin. Each night, his stories would take Lina on different adventures into the far reaches of space. In doing so, he planted the seeds of a dream.
Today, Lina Borozdina is one of the first 100 people to have plunked down ...