The 51-year-old Binnie has 21 years of flight test experience, and was at the controls for SpaceShipOne's first powered, supersonic flight on Dec. 17, the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers ...

Following the flight, Rutan saw a sign being held in the crowd. It read: "SpaceShipOne, Government Zero." "I thought, 'That's cool. Let me see if I could display it with the spaceship,'" Rutan said.

If SpaceShipOne's altitude is confirmed, it will also have beaten the X-15's top altitude of 354,200 feet (67 miles) set on August 22, 1963. This marks the first of two successful flights the team ...

During its flight, SpaceShipOne reached an altitude of some 100km, jubilant organisers said, citing two unofficial radar readings. At 14,100 metres, SpaceShipOne was released into a brief glide ...

MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA -- Human flight took a significant step forward today as the privately built SpaceShipOne flew into suborbital space for the second time in five days, securing the $10 million ...

Its victory was hailed by the banner: "SpaceShipOne, Government Zero." Today, at the Mojave Air and Space Port all appears in readiness for the combined test flights of WhiteKnightTwo and the ...

The final two flights clinched the Ansari XPrize, a $10 million challenge, for SpaceShipOne's MojaveAerospace Ventures company backed by entrepreneur and billionaire Paul G.Allen. Virginchief Sir ...

The privately backed SpaceShipOne suborbital rocket plane made its second powered flight Thursday. Built by Scaled Composites of Mojave, Calif., the piloted vehicle was powered by a hybrid rocket ...

MOJAVE, Calif. – SpaceShipOne (search) is one flight away from clinching the Ansari X Prize (search), a $10 million award for the first privately developed manned rocket to reach space twice ...

(Melvill flew SpaceShipOne in its qualifying flights on June 21 and September 29, and then Brian Binnie's October 4th flight captured the X Prize.) When SpaceShipOne first entered space on Melvill ...