Portal:Spaceflight/Selected article/Week 22 2007
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SpaceShipOne was an experimental air-launched suborbital spaceplane that used a hybrid rocket motor. On June 21, 2004, it made the first privately funded human spaceflight, and on October 4, it won the $10-million Ansari X PRIZE. All of its flights were from the Mojave Airport Civilian Flight Test Center. (more...)