Thanks. I couldn't tell from the excerpt whether this flight was manned. Apparently it was:
Roaring straight up through the sky after release from the White Knight carrier plane, SpaceShipOne began rolling at the top of its flight, with pilot Mike Melvill at the controls.
"I didn’t actually have any discomfort," he said. "I thought it was kind of cool."
They said they made up the weight of 2 people with artifacts placed on board by the people who worked on the project. I thought he was a goner.