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SpaceShipOne lowered to floor as Air and Space Museum renovates hall [i]SpaceShipOne, the world's first privately-built piloted spacecraft, has touched down after a decade in 'Flight.' The historic spaceplane, which flew three suborbital flights in 2004 and then was donated to the Smithsonian the year later, was lowered to the ground on Friday (March 27) after spending ten years suspended in the Milestones of Flight hall at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. "It's hard to believe it's been here ten years already," said Valerie Neal, chair of the museum's space history division and curator responsible for SpaceShipOne, in an interview with collectSPACE.[/i]
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