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Starring | Burt Rutan,Paul Allen,James Benson |
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Distributed by | Discovery Channel |
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Running time | 143 |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Black Sky: The Race For Space is a 2004Discovery Channel documentary aboutSpace Ship One, and how a small team backed byPaul Allen achieved human suborbital spaceflight and won theAnsari X Prize. It contains insights about how the rocketplane was built, the challenges they faced when they flew it, the vision ofBurt Rutan about the future of this technology (tier two and three), and his thoughts about NASA and government.[1] It won aPeabody Award in 2004.[2]
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