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SpaceShipOne ranks among the world's first spaceplanes in the first 50 years of human spaceflight, with the North American X-15, Space Shuttle, Buran, and Boeing X-37. SpaceShipOne is the second spaceplane to have launched from a mother ship, preceded only by the North American X-15.
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Space Ship One and White Knight Tier One was a Scaled Composites ' 1990s–2004 program of suborbital human spaceflight using the reusable spacecraft SpaceShipOne and its launcher White Knight . The craft was designed by Burt Rutan , and the project was funded 20 million US Dollars by Paul Allen .
The White Knight and SpaceShipOne were designed by Burt Rutan and manufactured by Scaled Composites, a private company founded by Rutan in 1982. On three separate flights in 2004, White Knight conducted SpaceShipOne into flight, and SpaceShipOne then performed a sub-orbital spaceflight, becoming the first private craft to reach space.
Flight 15P of SpaceShipOne (X0) was the first privately funded human spaceflight.It took place on June 21, 2004. It was the fourth powered test flight of the Tier One program, with the previous three test flights reaching much lower altitudes.
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.
Minecraft is a media franchise developed from and centered around the video game of the same name. Developed by Mojang Studios (formerly known as Mojang AB) and Xbox Game Studios , which are owned by Microsoft Corporation , the franchise consists of six video games, along with various books, merchandise, events, and an upcoming theatrical film.
Flight 11P of SpaceShipOne was its eighth independent flight, its first powered flight, and the first privately funded crewed flight to reach supersonic speeds. [1] It occurred on December 17, 2003. [2] The date of the test flight was 100 years to the day (and almost to the hour) since the Wright Brothers made the first powered flight. It ...