SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft with sub-orbital spaceflight capability at speeds of up to 3,000 ft/s (2,000 mph)...
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Flight 17P of SpaceShipOne was a spaceflight in the Tier One program that took place on October 4, 2004. It was the second competitive flight in the Ansari...
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Flight 16P of SpaceShipOne was a spaceflight in the Tier One program that took place on September 29, 2004. It was the first competitive flight in the...
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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...
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Virgin Galactic (redirect from Virgin Space Ship)
the Tier One project designed by Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, using the experimental spaceplane SpaceShipOne. $10 million...
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Galactic 07 on 8 June 2024. The SpaceShipTwo project was based in part on technology developed for the first-generation SpaceShipOne, which was part of the Scaled...
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List of Virgin Galactic launches (section SpaceShipOne)
series of vehicles, starting with SpaceShipOne, are more comparable to the X-15 than orbiting spacecraft like the Space Shuttle. Accelerating a spacecraft...
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unmanned, of SpaceShipOne July 29, 2003 — First manned captive flight of SpaceShipOne August 7, 2003 — First free-flight of SpaceShipOne December 17,...
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Mike Melvill (category Scaled Composites Tier One program)
pilot and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites. Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first...
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Flight 11P of SpaceShipOne was its eighth independent flight, its first powered flight, and the first privately funded crewed flight to reach supersonic...
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Flight 14P of SpaceShipOne was its third powered flight, which occurred on May 13, 2004. The pilot was Mike Melvill. SpaceShipOne was released from White...
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Scaled Composites (category Mojave Air and Space Port)
rocket-powered spacecraft was given the name SpaceShipOne. On December 17, 2003, they announced SpaceShipOne's first supersonic flight, the first flight...
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Tier One was a Scaled Composites' 1990s–2004 program of suborbital human spaceflight using the reusable spacecraft SpaceShipOne and its launcher White...
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Scaled Composites White Knight (redirect from White Knight One)
Two, a descendant which carries SpaceShipTwo into flight as part of the Virgin Galactic fleet. Following the SpaceShipOne flights, the White Knight was...
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Burt Rutan (category Space advocates)
Rutan's sub-orbital spaceplane design SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded spacecraft to enter the realm of space, winning the Ansari X-Prize that...
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List of human spaceflights (redirect from List of crewed space missions)
history Apollo-Soyuz flight history Space Shuttle flight history infographic Shenzhou flight history timeline SpaceShipOne flight history Portal: Spaceflight...
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Flight 13P of SpaceShipOne was its second powered flight, which occurred on April 8, 2004. The pilot was Peter Siebold. SpaceShipOne was released from...
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SpaceShip III (SS3, also with Roman numeral: SSIII; formerly SpaceShipThree) was an upcoming class of spaceplanes by Virgin Galactic to follow SpaceShipTwo...
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Peter Siebold (category Scaled Composites Tier One program)
is their Director of Flight Operations, and was one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo, the experimental spaceplanes developed by the...
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Spaceplane (redirect from Space plane)
before rocketing beyond the Kármán line: the X-15 and SpaceShipOne. Spaceplanes must operate in space, like traditional spacecraft, but also must be capable...
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Space Ship One is the seventh studio album by Paul Gilbert, best known as the guitarist of the hard rock band Mr. Big and formerly of Racer X. It was released...
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Paul Allen (category Space advocates)
Trophy for SpaceShipOne. On March 9, 2005, Allen, Rutan, and the rest of the SpaceShipOne team were awarded the 2005 National Air and Space Museum Trophy...
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Doug Shane (category Scaled Composites Tier One program)
was a member of the Scaled Composites astronaut team and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites...
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Ansari X Prize (category Space-related awards)
the Tier One project designed by Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, using the experimental spaceplane SpaceShipOne. $10 million...
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Sub-orbital spaceflight (redirect from Sub-orbital space flight)
as entrants to the Ansari X Prize competition. The Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne was officially declared by Rick Searfoss to have won the competition...
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Brian Binnie (category Scaled Composites Tier One program)
September 15, 2022) was a United States Navy officer and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites...
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List of crewed spacecraft (section SpaceShipOne (2004))
History of the Space Shuttle". The Atlantic. "SpaceShipOne: The First Private Spacecraft – The Most Amazing Flying Machines Ever". Space.com. 5 March 2019...
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colonization Space tourism Spaceport Sub-orbital spaceflight "SpaceShipOne". National Air and Space Museum. 2016-03-20. Archived from the original on 5 July...
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Astronaut (redirect from Health risks of space travel)
civilian space agencies. With the suborbital flight of the privately funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial astronaut...
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100 km Kármán line) with the SpaceShipOne flight 15P. The program won the Ansari X Prize later that year. 30 May 2020 – SpaceX successfully launches a Falcon...
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