Pioneer Rocketplane

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Pioneer Rocketplane

Company type	Private
Industry	Aerospace and defense
Founded	1996
Headquarters	Solvang, California, United States
Key people	Mitchell Burnside Clapp, Founder, Craig Dickman CEO/President
Products	Suborbital spacecraft Space systems
Number of employees	0 (1/1/05)

Pioneer Rocketplane was an aerospace design and development company intent on developing affordable crewed space flight. The company is most famous for advocating a horizontal takeoff, turbo-jet and rocket propelled, aerial-refueled, rocket plane concept called the Pathfinder. The company still exists, but is no longer in operation. Pioneer's intellectual property is now owned by Rocketplane Limited, Inc., however Rocketplane Limited does not employ any of the principals of Pioneer Rocketplane.^{[not verified in body]}