Tales of the Heliosphere

The Burt Rutan Space Program keeps on flying with White Knight's flight today carrying the X-37 spaceplane. (Click here for story.) As everybody knows, Rutan won the X-Prize using White Knight to carry SpaceShipOne aloft for launch into space. The fact that White Knight is continuing to fly missions, demonstrates the benefit of using a carrier plane to take a spacecraft to launch elevation. It can keep on flying for use in multiple missions for years to come.

-tdr