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Michael Winston «Mike» Melvill (11 de noviembre de 1940) es un piloto de pruebas [1] conocido por ser el primer astronauta comercial de la historia. Melvill pilotó la SpaceShipOne en su primer vuelo al espacio, vuelo 15P, el 21 de junio de 2004 [2] convirtiéndose en el primer Astronauta Comercial y la persona número 434 en ir al espacio.
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, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites.
30 de abr. de 2024 · Michael Melvill is an American test pilot, the first commercial astronaut, and the first person to travel into space aboard a privately funded spacecraft. Melvill was raised in Durban, S.Af., and attended but did not graduate from Hilton College, a private boarding high school in Hilton.
3 de dic. de 2009 · 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 Ansari X PRIZE competition to demonstrate a ...
21 de jun. de 2004 · Un piloto norteamericano de 62 años, Mike Melvill, se ha convertido en la primera persona que realiza un viaje espacial financiado con capital privado, concretamente con el de Paul Allen, el...
5 de jun. de 2013 · Unlikeliest astronaut. Mike Melvill doesn’t fit the typical military-trained, academically overachieving astronaut profile. The South Africa native failed a math course and never finished high school. He raced motorcycles and became a machinist at 17.
27 de jun. de 2021 · Melvill is most famous for his flight test work at Scaled Composites with SpaceShipOne, designed by Burt Rutan. Mike Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first flight past the edge of space, (100 kilometers or 62 miles) Flight 15P, becoming the first commercial astronaut and the 434th person to go into space.
