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  • SpaceShipOne Data Shows Vessel Took a 'Trajectory Excursion'

    06/29/2004 7:13:54 AM PDT · by ZGuy · 12 replies · 394+ views
    Space.com via Yahoo ^ | 6/28/04 | Leonard David
    Flight data from the first private vehicle to soar beyond the Earth's atmosphere has been posted by Scaled Composites, designer and builder of the SpaceShipOne. The flight was not trouble-free. With 63-year-old pilot Mike Melvill at the controls, SpaceShipOne's fourth powered flight on June 21 sliced through the sky high over Mojave, California desert. It was the first commercial astronaut flight by exceeding 328,000 feet (100 kilometers) -- to the edge of space. The flight marked the first time an aerospace program had successfully completed a piloted mission without government sponsorship. Momentum carried the day On the June 21 flight...