MOJAVE, Calif., June 21 -- Flying a foam composite rocket ship powered by laughing gas and burning rubber, Mike Melvill took off faster than a bullet over a ramshackle airport in the desert Monday and ...
Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions ...
MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) -- A rocket plane soared above Earth's atmosphere Monday in the first privately financed manned spaceflight, then glided back to Earth for an unpowered landing. SpaceShipOne pilot ...
On June 21, 2004, the first privately funded human spaceflight, launched on SpaceShipOne. The ship flew 62.5 miles above Earth's surface -- just a few miles above the boundary of space -- for about 3 ...
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