It was a one-of-a-kind moment for a throng of well-wishers, including this reporter, all in nose-up, sky-squinting position at California's Mojave Airport on June 21, 2004. Let loose from its White ...

Thousands of obervers at the Mojave Spaceport and millions watching via webcast and TV were able to follow today’s dramatic flight to space of the SpaceShipOne suborbital vehicle via Ecliptic’s ...

SpaceShipOne has completed its historic flight and has safely landed. SpaceShipOne reached its projected altitude of 62 miles (100 kilometers) even though its engine cut off early. This is the first ...

White Knight and SpaceShipOne seen rising against the "boneyard" of stored planes at the Mojave Air and Space Port. Twenty years ago Friday, an unlikely group of aircraft designers and renegade ...

The exhibit 'honors Mike Melvill, the nation's first commercial astronaut who flew SpaceShipOne above 100 kilometers on June 21, 2004.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Only three human missions to space were launched from the United States this year, all of them operated by a private company called Mojave Aerospace Ventures (MAV). Monday, the third flight of the ...

Test pilot Mike Melvill conducted the world's first private space flight June 21, piloting Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne into suborbital space after taking off from Mojave Airport in California.

MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) - A rocket plane soared above Earth's atmosphere Monday in the first privately financed manned spaceflight, then glided back to Earth for an unpowered landing. SpaceShipOne pilot ...

POWERED FLIGHT: Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne flew its second powered flight on April 8, reaching a speed of Mach 2 and a maximum altitude of 100,000 feet, according to a statement released by the ...

Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors that contributed to their success. Although they served very different ...

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