posted September 18, 2006 10:34 PM               

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Iranian-American space passenger Anousheh Ansari is carrying prayers for peace with her to the international space station this week, but she's also carrying a piece of space history. Packed among her personal belongings is a cutting from the SpaceShipOne rocket plane, the world's first privately developed suborbital spaceship. The craft's designer, Burt Rutan, confirms that he gave Ansari a couple of extra mementos to bring along on the trip.

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posted September 20, 2006 05:58 PM               

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As Anousheh entered ISS, she brought onboard her “carry-on” allocation of 10 KG. Besides an X PRIZE flag and hat, she also is also carrying a number of artifacts which flew aboard SpaceShipOne — to my knowledge, these are the only items ever to fly both on a suborbital and orbital flight. The list of items includes:

• A physical piece of composite materials taken off of SS1
  
• Two SS1 mission patches which had previous flown about the two winning Ansari X PRIZE sub-orbital flights.
  
• And a number of first day covers (for you stamp collectors) that were flown on SS1 and canceled in Mojave on October 4th.

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posted September 20, 2006 08:52 PM               

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Scott Schneeweis