It was a one-of-a-kind moment for a throng of well-wishers, including this reporter, all in nose-up, sky-squinting position at California's Mojave Airport on June 21, 2004. Let loose from its White ...

White Knight and SpaceShipOne seen rising against the "boneyard" of stored planes at the Mojave Air and Space Port. Twenty years ago Friday, an unlikely group of aircraft designers and renegade ...

For the entirety of the 20th century, from Yuri Gagarin to Alan Shepard to Sally Ride and Mae Jemison, humans that traveled outside of Earth’s atmosphere did so in spacecraft owned and created by a ...

The exhibit 'honors Mike Melvill, the nation's first commercial astronaut who flew SpaceShipOne above 100 kilometers on June 21, 2004.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A 2004 Peabody Award was granted to the documentary Black Sky: The Race for Space, which chronicled the development effort behind the pioneering SpaceShipOne crewed suborbital spaceship. The award, ...

Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors that contributed to their success. Although they served very different ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Test pilot Mike Melvill wore this ...

When the first American flew into space in 1961, Burt Rutan was a 17-year-old college freshman. Listening to news of Alan Shepard’s groundbreaking suborbital flight on the radio, Rutan was euphoric.

Paul G. Allen and Burt Rutan Announce Plans for First Non-Government, Privately Funded Manned Space Flight Mojave, CA: A privately-developed rocket plane will launch into history on June 21 on a ...

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