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    SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft with sub-orbital spaceflight capability at speeds of up to 3,000 ft/s (2,000 mph)...
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    Flight 17P of SpaceShipOne was a spaceflight in the Tier One program that took place on October 4, 2004. It was the second competitive flight in the Ansari...
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    Flight 15P of SpaceShipOne (X0) was the first privately funded human spaceflight. It took place on June 21, 2004. It was the fourth powered test flight...
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    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...
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    Galactic 07 on 8 June 2024. The SpaceShipTwo project was based in part on technology developed for the first-generation SpaceShipOne, which was part of the Scaled...
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  • the Tier One project designed by Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, using the experimental spaceplane SpaceShipOne. $10 million...
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    unmanned, of SpaceShipOne July 29, 2003 — First manned captive flight of SpaceShipOne August 7, 2003 — First free-flight of SpaceShipOne December 17,...
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    series of vehicles, starting with SpaceShipOne, are more comparable to the X-15 than orbiting spacecraft like the Space Shuttle. Accelerating a spacecraft...
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    Mike Melvill (category Scaled Composites Tier One program)
    pilot and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites. Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first...
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  • Flight 13P of SpaceShipOne was its second powered flight, which occurred on April 8, 2004. The pilot was Peter Siebold. SpaceShipOne was released from...
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