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California FULLY supports this activity as spaceport California is now the first FAA spaceport to reach suborbit flight with the X15 way back when.
Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch 2009
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"It is already restricted and will remain so until suborbit flights can show they won't kill anyone."
ITAR - Commercial Spaceflights: Foreign Customers Stay Home - NASA Watch 2009
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NASA has already purchased a ticket for a flight, with the intention of conducting experiments in suborbit—and why not?
Space: The Next Business Frontier Mary Kissel 2011
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It is already restricted and will remain so until suborbit flights can show they won't kill anyone.
ITAR - Commercial Spaceflights: Foreign Customers Stay Home - NASA Watch 2009
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The shuttle was a Canadaspace suborbit hop from Riyadh to Ottawa.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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The shuttle was a Canadaspace suborbit hop from Riyadh to Ottawa.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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A missile is a weapons system attached to a rocket designed to reach suborbit and then re-enter the earth's atmosphere, in order to hit an aerial or terrestrial target.
John Delury: The Test: How Obama Can Pivot on North Korea 2009
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COLLINS: The X Prize goes to the team whose spacecraft makes it into suborbit twice in two weeks.
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In response to nuclear warhead placed in suborbit by other major power,
Earth 1966
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Allen's SpaceShipOne became the first privately-financed craft capable reaching suborbit in two attempts.
unknown title 2011
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