SpaceShipOne pilot Mike Melvill kisses
his wife Sally goodbye before he climbs aboard SpaceShipOne for
a trip to sub-orbital space at Mojave in California.
The White Knight carrier airplane with
SpaceShipOne tethered underneath takes-off from Mojave Airport
in California.
Accompanied by a chase plane, SpaceShipOne
glides to a landing over the desert and mountains after its
first civilian suborbital space flight at Mojave, Calif.,
Monday, June 21, 2004. SpaceShipOne is a privately developed
rocket plane that became the world's first commercial manned
space vehicle and the first non-governmental flight to leave the
Earth's atmosphere.
The White Knight carrier airplane with
SpaceShipOne tethered underneath takes-off from Mojave Airport
in California. The SpaceShipOne project became the first
commerical flight into space after it successfully sent the
spacecraft 62 miles (100 kilometers) into sub-orbital space and
back again. |
