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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Colglazier CFO: Doug Ahrens President – Safety: Mike Moses Chief pilot: Dave "Mac" Mackay Chief flight instructor: Mike "Sooch" Masucci Test pilot: Kelly Latimer...
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    flights reaching much lower altitudes. The flight carried only its pilot, Mike Melvill, who thus became the first non-governmental astronaut. This flight was...
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    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...
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    SpaceShipOne on ramp before takeoff in October 2004 (L-R) Marion Blakey, Mike Melvill, Richard Branson, Burt Rutan, Brian Binnie, and Allen following first...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    process, exposing the blue foam core. Burt Rutan following with pilot Mike Melvill determined that Voyager was still within its performance specifications...
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    Commercial astronaut Patti Grace Smith presents SpaceShipOne pilot Mike Melvill the department's first commercial astronaut wings. Occupation Occupation...
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    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...
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    test flight on March 22, 1991. Dick Rutan was the initial test pilot. Mike Melvill also flew the plane as did Steve Hinton as part of the test program....
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    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...
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    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...
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    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"...
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    The first person to fly on an entirely privately funded mission was Mike Melvill, piloting SpaceShipOne flight 15P on a suborbital journey, although he...
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    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...
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    the first privately flown and funded crewed spaceflight, piloted by Mike Melvill. 4 October 2004 – Scaled Composites Tier One officially wins the Ansari...
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    airshow, Mike Melvill and crew flew the White Knight, carrying SpaceShipOne, to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, where Melvill spoke to...
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  • Marion Blakely, FAA - Chief. Commercial Astronaut- Michael Winston "Mike" Melvill - Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson - Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan...
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    For his contribution to the SpaceShipOne project, Siebold, along with Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie, received the 2004 Iven C. Kincheloe Award presented...
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    Administration conferred its first-ever commercial astronaut wings on Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie, pilots of the commercial SpaceShipOne, another spaceplane...
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    (founder) Doug Shane (former president) Michael Alsbury (test pilot) Mike Melvill (vice president/general manager, test pilot) Brian Binnie (manager, test...
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    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...
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    (founder) Doug Shane (former president) Michael Alsbury (test pilot) Mike Melvill (vice president/general manager, test pilot) Brian Binnie (manager, test...
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  • 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...
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    from the original on February 27, 2018. Retrieved February 27, 2018. Wall, Mike (October 29, 2018). "Stratolaunch's Rocket Carrier, the Biggest Airplane...
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    aircraft was restored to flying condition by Zach Reeder, Jim Reed and Mike Melvill. Catbird's second first flight was July 7, 2011. Catbird holds the world...
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    SpaceShipOne was a reusable suborbital spaceplane that carried pilots Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie on consecutive flights in 2004 to win the Ansari X Prize...
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