| WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) taxis out from the darkness to reveal SpaceShipTwo (SS2) during the windy, frigid Mojave night (photo by Dan Linehan). |
| SpaceShipTwo, carried in the middle of the WhiteKnightTwo mothership, makes its first public appearance (photo by Dan Linehan). |
| New Mexico's Gov. Richardson and California's Gov. Schwarzenegger christen SpaceShipTwo as the VSS Enterprise. Sir Richard Branson and his daughter stand off to the left as the Champaign bottles smash against the nose of SpaceShipTwo (photo by Dan Linehan). |
| The aft view of SpaceShipTwo, with Dan Linehan standing by (photo by Alan Boyle, see MSNBC's Cosmic Log). |
| The side view of SpaceShipTwo, underneath the right boom of WhiteKnightTwo (photo by Dan Linehan). |
| A closeup view of nosecone of VSS Enterprise and Dan Linehan (photo by Jeff Foust, see The Space Review). |
| At the press conference, Sir Richard Branson and Burt Rutan stand behind the SpaceShipTwo model. The designs for both SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo were previously unveiled in January 2008 (photo by Dan Linehan). |
| Gov. Schwarzenegger promises to keep California at the leading edge of technology while ribbing Gov. Richardson (photo by Dan Linehan). |
| Gov. Richardson gets the last laugh, though. SpaceShipTwo will fly commercially from New Mexico (photo by Dan Linehan). |
| Matt Stinemetze, project manager of SS2 and WK2, introduces part of the Scaled Composites SS2 and WK2 team (photos by Dan Linehan). |
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| SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History by Dan Linehan with foreword by Arthur C. Clarke |
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Burt Rutan's Race to Space: The Magician of Mojave and his Flying Innovations by Dan Linehan with foreword by Mike Melvill |
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