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WASHINGTON, March 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A flying model NASA built to research futuristic aircraft designs will spend its future in the United States' premier air and space museum. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The 12-foot wing span blended wing body, or BWB, model, used during wind tunnel flight tests at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., is on long-term loan to the "How Things Fly" gallery at the Smithsonian Institution's National...

A flying model NASA built to research futuristic aircraft designs will spend its future in the United States' premier air and space museum.The 12-foot wing span blended wing body, or BWB, model, used during wind tunnel flight tests at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., is on long-term loan to the "How Things Fly" gallery at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington."One key focus of NASA aeronautics research is to develop...

WASHINGTON -- The first private space ship took its place Wednesday next to Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, a hoped-for symbol of a new era of space tourism alongside the icon of trans-Atlantic flight.SpaceShipOne's designer, Burt Rutan, and its financier, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) co-founder Paul Allen, were on hand as the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum took ownership of the 28-foot star-spangled spacecraft.A year ago, Rutan and Allen captured the $10 million...