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At a brief ceremony on October 5, 2005 at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum (NASM), Jack Daily, museum director, officially accepted the donation of SpaceShipOne and thanked Burt Rutan and Paul Allen for their gift and achievement.
Burt Rutan (left) of Scaled Composites, Jack Daily (center), museum director, and Paul Allen (right), financier, gather for a brief ceremony beneath the Spirit of St. Louis and its new neighbor, SpaceShipOne. Photo credit: Al Hoffman, The Boeing Company.
SpaceShipOne, the X-1, and the X-15 now hang side-by-side in the Museum. As Al Hoffman remarked, "there's a lot of California in this room!" Photo credit: Al Hoffman, The Boeing Company.
For more information, see this previous NASM press release regarding this event: NASM-SS1.pdf
