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Space Ship One

Thursday, July 01, 2004 04:49 PM

Amazing photos of Space Ship One here.Space Ship One is the first Private Manned Mission to Space. Under the command of test pilot Mike Melvill, SpaceShipOne reached a record breaking altitude of 328,491 feet (approximately 62 miles or 100 km), making Melvill the first civilian to fly a spaceship out of the atmosphere and the first private pilot to earn astronaut wings.