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 ...

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 ...

Brian Binnie is a former United States Navy officer and test pilot for SpaceShipOne, the experimental space plane created by aeronautical pioneer, Burt Rutan, and his innovative company, Scaled ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Virgin Galactic unveiled SpaceShipOne's successor, the six-passenger SpaceShipTwo, in 2009. The vehicle has successfully completed a handful of rocket-powered test flights and should begin ...

(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 ...