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Black Sky: The Race for Space.

Black Sky: The Race For Space is a 2004 Discovery Channel documentary about Space Ship One, and how a small team backed by Paul Allen achieved human suborbital spaceflight and won the Ansari X Prize. It contains insights about how the rocketplane was built, the challenges they faced when they flew it, the vision of Burt Rutan about the future of this technology (tier two and three), and his thoughts about NASA and government. It won a Peabody Award in 2004.[2]

English
  • Originally Aired October 3, 2004
  • Runtime 143 minutes
  • Network Discovery
  • Notes Is a season finale
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