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Burt Rutins and pilot Melvil are on the threshold of space history. When I mentioned folded wind flight for spaceships over three years ago most everyone said it would never happen - well I'm back to humbly say I told you so.<br /><br />Below spaceship one trajectory map is one of my many designs of folded wing orbital re-entry craft I designed over three years ago, even before Burt Rutin incorporated it in his design. I used reusable sharp ceramics material in place of heat shield tiles for re-entry. <br /><br />If Spaceship one goes from a sub-orbital flight to orbital velocity then they would need a lot better heat shield for re-entry then it has now, which adds weight<br /><br />The next prize to be offered is going to be worth 50 million dollars to orbit the Earth with 7 passengers, which is a drop in the bucket for developing a spaceship to orbit the Earth and land safely back on earth and do it all over again within two weeks. <br /><br />Again - if anyone ever does it, it will be with a folded wing spaceship.<br /><br />Here is a trajectory map of Spaceship ones flight, notice the folded wings at re-entry.<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>