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Hace 3 días · When SpaceShipOne was dropped from the White Knight carrier plane at 40,000 feet (12,000 meters), pilot Mike Melvill didn't say a thing, according to Rutan. "That will get your ass puckered up if ...
Hace 4 días · Minutes later, Mike Melvill became the first commercial astronaut to fly a privately funded vehicle to space. Melvill blasted past the 50-mile official U.S. boundary to space and then eked across ...
Hace 5 días · On June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne made history as the first privately funded spacecraft to reach the edge of space. Piloted by Mike Melvill, this groundbreaking...
Hace 5 días · After the third manned flight — flown by self-taught pilot Mike Melvill — on October 4, 2004, Rutan secured $10 million from the Ansari X Prize. Shortly thereafter, Richard Bronson acquired ...
Hace 5 días · At 6:45 am on Monday, June 21st, 2004, White Knight took off from the Mojave Airport runway to the cheers of thousands of spectators, carrying SpaceShipOne slung below it. Pilot Brian Binnie and copilot Matt Stinemetze flew White Knight in spirals to reach the target altitude of 47,000 feet as Mike Melvill waited beneath them inside ...
17 de jun. de 2024 · Pilot Mike Melvill, the sole crew member, took SpaceShipOne, or SS1 for short, to an altitude of 100.124 kilometers, just past the invisible boundary line, before beginning the long glide back...
Hace 5 días · The stubby, star-spangled spacecraft crossed the boundary of space — accepted at 100 kilometers, or 328,000 feet above the Earth — three times, each attempt stretching higher than the last. On SpaceShipOne’s first foray into space, longtime Scaled test pilot Mike Melvill was at the controls. In a flight witnessed by tens of thousands ...
