Let loose from its White Knight mothership, the rocket engine propelling the experimental suborbital SpaceShipOne vehicle roared to life, skillfully controlled by test pilot Mike Melvill.

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MOJAVE DESERT, California (CNN) -- Onlookers held their breath as the manned SpaceShipOne performed unexpected but spectacular acrobatics on its way into space, the first step toward winning the ...

(SPACE.com) -- The record-setting, privately-built suborbital rocket plane -- SpaceShipOne -- is headed for a landing at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in Washington ...

The second attempt by the rocketplane SpaceShipOne to soar into space and snag the $10 million Ansari X Prize is planned for Monday, officials announced last night. SpaceShipOne made the first of ...

Here’s how it works. MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA - The frightening spin of SpaceShipOne during its trip into space Wednesday was caused by a known deficiency and at no time led to an out-of-control ...

SpaceShipOne crossed the finish line in an 8-year, $10 million space race Monday, winning the Ansari X Prize with its second spaceflight in less than a week. Along the way, the world's first ...

MOJAVE, CALIF., June 21, 2004–Burt Rutan’s revolutionary SpaceShipOne flew into space Monday morning, becoming the world’s only successful privately funded space vehicle and making what ...

Fresh from success of nudging the piloted SpaceShipOne’s nose to record-setting heights and capturing the $10 million Ansari X Prize, Rutan and his team at Scaled Composites have clearly set ...

On October 4, 2004, SpaceShipOne—the first privately owned, piloted vehicle to reach space—returned from its third journey to clinch the $10 million Ansari X Prize. The prize, meant to ...