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Flight 15P of SpaceShipOne (X0) was the first privately funded human spaceflight. It took place on June 21, 2004. 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.
Flight 15P on June 21, 2004, was SpaceShipOne's first spaceflight, and the first privately funded human spaceflight. There were a few control problems, [ 12 ] but these were resolved prior to the Ansari X PRIZE flights that followed, with flight 17P to 112 km on October 4, 2004, [ 13 ] winning the prize.
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Flight 15P, SpaceShipOne: First human spaceflight of commercial spaceship. 245 Michael W. Melvill (2) 29 September 2004 Flight 16P, SpaceShipOne: Ansari X Prize flight #1. 246 W. Brian Binnie: 4 October 2004 Flight 17P, SpaceShipOne: Ansari X Prize flight #2, winning the prize. 247 Yuri Shargin: 14 October 2004 Soyuz TMA-5: ISS: 24 October 2004 ...
15P may refer to: 15P/Finlay, a comet; SpaceShipOne flight 15P, a commercial spaceflight; Phosphorus (15 P), a chemical element; See also. P15 (disambiguation)
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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]
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.