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  • X Prize Lands in New York; Rocket at Rockefeller Center

    04/25/2002 1:50:00 PM PDT · by The_Victor · 13 replies · 306+ views
    Space.com ^ | Thurs. Apr 25, 2002 | Tariq Malik
    NEW YORK, New York – A Canadian spaceship rolled into Rockefeller Plaza Thursday as Erik Lindbergh, the grandson of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh, came to Manhattan to promote space tourism with plans to follow his family legacy across the Atlantic Ocean.The spaceship, the Canadian Arrow, and the younger Lindbergh’s Trans-Atlantic flight, set for May 1, are part of an effort to push private-based space tourism in the public eye and highlight the X Prize, an international competition to put three people in space and return them safely. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly solo across the...