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The craft re-entered the atmosphere 22 miles (35 km) south of its planned 5 by 5-mile (8 by 8 km) re-entry zone. The pilot finally corrected the spacecraft's attitude at this point, using a backup trim system. The craft reached Mach 2.9 and experienced deceleration of 5.0 'g (49 m/s²) during descent. The craft switched to gliding configuration ...
The Scaled Composites Model 316, [2] known as SpaceShipOne, was a spaceplane designed to: Carry three humans (one of them a pilot ) in a sea-level pressurized cabin. Be propelled by rocket from an altitude of 15 km (9.3 mi) to in excess of 100 km (62 mi).
SpaceShipOne flight 16P on September 29, 2004 and SpaceShipOne flight 17P on October 4, 2004 were successful competitive flights, winning the X Prize. The Tier One program run by Scaled Composites concluded after the retirement of SpaceShipOne, transitioning to a successor program for customer Virgin Galactic .
Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first flight past the edge of space, flight 15P on June 21, 2004, [3] thus becoming the first commercial astronaut, and the 435th person to go into space. [4] He was also the pilot on SpaceShipOne's flight 16P, the first competitive flight in the Ansari X Prize competition. [5]
SpaceShipOne flight 15P; SpaceShipOne flight 16P; SpaceShipOne flight 17P This page was last edited on 5 May 2018, at 19:00 (UTC). Text is ...
SpaceShipOne flight 15P; SpaceShipOne flight 16P; SpaceShipOne flight 17P This page was last edited on 10 November 2020, at 07:16 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The Scaled Composites Model 318 White Knight (now also called White Knight One) is a jet-powered carrier aircraft that was used to launch its companion SpaceShipOne, an experimental spaceplane. The White Knight and SpaceShipOne were designed by Burt Rutan and manufactured by Scaled Composites , a private company founded by Rutan in 1982.
Support as nominator--WPPilot 15:03, 5 March 2014 (UTC) Comment It is interesting to note that this photo was taken almost 10 years ago, June 2004 and since the flights that created this historical event, no human has been back into Space in a private craft, but the Scaled Composites team with Richard Bronson & Virgin is expected to launch the ...