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[i]The memorial ceremony featured a rare flyover by the WhiteKnightTwo mothership that carried SpaceShipTwo to its final flight nearly two weeks ago. About 1,000 mourners, including Alsbury's widow and their two children, attended the ceremony at a baseball stadium in Lancaster, a half-hour's drive south of WhiteKnightTwo's home base at the Mojave Air and Space Port. Among those in attendance were America's first private-sector astronauts, Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie, who flew an earlier SpaceShipOne plane into outer space 10 years ago. ...a second SpaceShipTwo plane is more than half complete inside a Virgin Galactic hangar, and Branson noted that the engineers building the plane have nicknamed it "Hope." "Mike has given us this hope, and we plan to honor Mike's name by achieving the dream he had pursued so very bravely," Branson said. [/i]
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