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... —this is where the Earth's atmosphere ceases to become a factor. It took SpaceShipOne 60 minutes to get into space. This involved a stage where a plane carried the ...

There is a good chance that Burt Rutan's spaceship designs will be flying within the next five years, and that anyone will be able to fly on them. While they don't go to orbit, they will fly into space, almost to the altitude of orbiting spaceships. ---- Answer provided by David Gump & Gary Hudson Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space ...

... Virgin Galactic. They plan to build a fleet of five seven-passenger "SpaceShipTwo" spacecraft using SpaceShipOne technology. Most recently, they have just announced to build a commercial spaceport in New Mexico ... by entrepreneurs, politicians, space enthusiasts and business owners alike. One year after the history-making SpaceShipOne flight, and subsequently winning the 10 million dollar X Prize, Dr. Peter Diamandis, the X ...

... released SpaceShipOne . Propelled by a fuel containing rubber and nitrous oxide ~ laughing gas ~ SpaceShipOne eventually attained an altitude of 328,491 feet (62 miles or 100 kilometers), achieving suborbital spaceflight. After SpaceShipOne had ... landed the craft at Mojave Airport. Burt Rutan , the founder of Scaled Composites , had designed SpaceShipOne , and Microsoft cofounder Paul G. Allen had financed the project. (Peter Pae, “Private Spaceflight Is ...

... 's pilot Michael W. Melvill landed SpaceShipOne at Mojave Airport. The event was a test flight in preparation for the planned official launch of SpaceShipOne on 2 June 2004. Scaled Composites , the company that had built the rocket, intended SpaceShipOne to become the first privately funded, piloted vehicle to achieve suborbital flight. Scaled Composites had built SpaceShipOne ...

... miles) above Earth's surface, twice in two weeks. California-based Scaled Composites had built SpaceShipOne , and the company's founder Burt Rutan had designed the vehicle. The spacecraft left California ... ), affixed to another aircraft. The aircraft released SpaceShipOne after attaining an altitude of 48,000 feet (9.1 miles or 14.6 kilometers). Although SpaceShipOne had some difficulty during its ascent, the ...

... on this occasion was the handcrafted sign that read “SpaceShipOne—NASA Zero”. Clearly, the successful two back-to-back flights of SpaceShipOne were taken to mean that something new was afoot at ... -exclusive-rules-set-50-million-america-space-prize.html note 11 Lester Haines, SpaceShipOne claims X-Prize: Triumph for private space vehicle, The Register, Oct 4, 2004, 4 Oct 2004 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/04/spaceshipone_claims_x_prize/ note 12 Virgin Galactic: 'Single human error' led to catastrophic ...

... , aircraft designer Burt Rutan unveiled for the first time his White Knight launch system and SpaceShipOne spacecraft, which he had built in secret. Rutan had designed the White Knight , a type ... ,734 meters) before spiraling down to make a soft but extremely short landing. Rutan demonstrated SpaceShipOne 's systems, explaining that the craft should land in the same manner as the launch ...

... supersonic flight of an aircraft developed by a small private company. SpaceShipOne 's specially designed jet aircraft, the White Knight , carried SpaceShipOne to an altitude of 48,000 feet (14.63 kilometers ... . (Associated Press, “Private Rocket Plane Breaks Sound Barrier,” 18 December 2003; Leonard David, “Privately Funded SpaceShipOne Breaks Sound Barrier,” Space.com, 18 December 2003,http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/rutan ...

... 100 kilometers (62.1 miles) twice within two weeks. California-based Scaled Composites had built SpaceShipOne , company founder Burt Rutan had designed the spacecraft, and Microsoft cofounder Paul G. Allen had ... -x-prize (accessed 12 May 2009); Scaled Composites , “ SpaceShipOne Captures X-Prize,” 4 October 2004,http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/041004_spaceshipone_x-prize_flight_2.html (accessed 12 May 2009 ...

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