Private Rocket Plane Makes Historic Space Flight

June 22, 2004 D. H. McKee

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The privately funded rocket plane SpaceShipOne flew to outer space and into history books on Monday as the world’s first commercial manned space flight.

The distinctive white rocket plane was released from a larger plane called the White Knight and ignited its rocket engine to enter space 62 miles above the earth.

Against the backdrop of a clear blue sky, it landed safely back at a runway in the Mojave Desert in California, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles.

“The colors were pretty staggering from up there,” said pilot Michael Melvill, who also earned his wings, officially, as an astronaut. “It was almost a religious experience.”

Melvill said he could see the black expanse of outer space, the curvature of the earth and a broad swathe of the Southern California coast during his three and half minutes just beyond earth’s atmosphere.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5473860

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