Michael Winston Melvill (born November 30, 1940, in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a world-record-breaking pilot and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne...

SpaceShipOne's first official spaceflight, known as flight 15P, was piloted by Mike Melvill. A few days before that flight, the Mojave Air and Space Port was the...

Melvill and Robert Waldmiller, 19,015 m, October 25, 2000. Altitude with 1,000 kg payload: Scaled Composites Proteus N281PR, piloted by Mike Melvill and...

flights reaching much lower altitudes. The flight carried only its pilot, Mike Melvill, who thus became the first non-governmental astronaut. This flight was...

Colglazier CFO: Doug Ahrens President – Safety: Mike Moses Chief pilot: Dave "Mac" Mackay Chief flight instructor: Mike "Sooch" Masucci Test pilot: Kelly Latimer...

sponsorship inspired by Melvill's antics with M&M's during flight 15P 7-Up Plus Champ Car World Series The SpaceShipOne pilot was Mike Melvill. There were three...

frontier. The first part of the Ansari XPRIZE requirements was fulfilled by Mike Melvill on September 29, 2004, On SpaceShipOne, a spacecraft designed by Burt...

airshow, Mike Melvill and crew flew the White Knight, carrying SpaceShipOne, to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, where Melvill spoke to...

SpaceShipOne on ramp before takeoff in October 2004 (L-R) Marion Blakey, Mike Melvill, Richard Branson, Burt Rutan, Brian Binnie, and Allen following first...

piloted by Mike Melvill and Robert Waldmiller, 19,277 m (63,245 ft), October 25, 2000. Altitude in horizontal flight: piloted by Mike Melvill and Robert...

process, exposing the blue foam core. Burt Rutan following with pilot Mike Melvill determined that Voyager was still within its performance specifications...

are supplied by Aircraft Spruce & Specialty. In 1997 Dick Rutan and Mike Melvill flew in convoy around the world in two Rutan Long-EZ aircraft that they...

deployed into the free stream and began a limit cycle forcing the pilot (Mike Melvill) to abort. The spoilers were subsequently disabled completely and the...

third powered flight, which occurred on May 13, 2004. The pilot was Mike Melvill. SpaceShipOne was released from White Knight at an altitude of 46,000 ft...

SpaceShipOne's first official spaceflight, known as flight 15P, was piloted by Mike Melvill. A few days before that flight, the Mojave Air and Space Port was the...

successful competitive flights: X1 on September 29, 2004, piloted by Mike Melvill to 102.9 km; and X2 on October 4, 2004, piloted by Brian Binnie to 112 km...

Gary Freeman, Gulfstream Aerospace G-V Certification Test Program 1999 Mike Melvill, Scaled Composites Proteus high-altitude multimission aircraft 2000 Jeremy...

Russia probes Soyuz capsule's perilous re-entry, CNN, 23 April 2008 Eckel, Mike (24 April 2008). "Russian news agency says Soyuz crew was in danger on descent"...

reusing at least 80% of the vehicle hardware. The two flights were piloted by Mike Melville and Brian Binnie respectively. The project team was honored with...

(founder) Doug Shane (former president) Michael Alsbury (test pilot) Mike Melvill (vice president/general manager, test pilot) Brian Binnie (manager, test...

The first person to fly on an entirely privately funded mission was Mike Melvill, piloting SpaceShipOne flight 15P on a suborbital journey, although he...

(L–R) Marion Blakey, Mike Melvill, Richard Branson, Burt Rutan, Binnie, and Paul Allen reflect on a mission accomplished in 2004....

(founder) Doug Shane (former president) Michael Alsbury (test pilot) Mike Melvill (vice president/general manager, test pilot) Brian Binnie (manager, test...

Marion Blakely, FAA - Chief. Commercial Astronaut- Michael Winston "Mike" Melvill - Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson - Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan...

Global Hawks as of 2013. Before retiring in 2014, ACC commander, General Mike Hostage said of the U-2's replacement by the drone that "The combatant commanders...

For his contribution to the SpaceShipOne project, Siebold, along with Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie, received the 2004 Iven C. Kincheloe Award presented...

(founder) Doug Shane (former president) Michael Alsbury (test pilot) Mike Melvill (vice president/general manager, test pilot) Brian Binnie (manager, test...

(founder) Doug Shane (former president) Michael Alsbury (test pilot) Mike Melvill (vice president/general manager, test pilot) Brian Binnie (manager, test...

Administration conferred its first-ever commercial astronaut wings on Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie, pilots of the commercial SpaceShipOne, another spaceplane...

Prize trophy is on the left. SpaceShipOne Flight 16P taxi pre launch Mike Melvill and Burt Rutan speak to the media after the first flight into space In...