NASA Probe Bound for Pluto Carries Piece of Pioneering SpaceShipOne

Friday, February 27, 2015 - 08:00 in Astronomy & Space

Inside New Horizons is a small piece of SpaceShipOne, the first privately owned and operated spacecraft to reach space twice within a period of 14 days. The feat, which SpaceShipOne accomplished in 2004, won the $10 million Ansari X Prize.

Read the whole article on Space.com

More from Space.com

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net