First Private Spacecraft in History

World | June 21, 2004, Monday // 00:00

The first private manned spaceship left the Earth early on Monday morning, making its hictoric entry into records as the first private spacecraft to carry humans into space. The US rocket touched down safely later in the day. The trajectory of SpaceShipOne took more than 100 km above Earth's atmosphere. Thus Mike Melvill became the first astronaut to pilot a private spacecraft. The company Scaled Composites built SpaceShipOne with financial backing from Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, for a little more than USD 20 M.

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