CANCEL
Flight 17P (SpaceShipOne)
Launch Date
October 4, 2004
Craft
SpaceShipOne
Status
Past
Crew
1
Flight 17P (SpaceShipOne)
Launch Date
October 4, 2004
Craft
SpaceShipOne
Status
Past
Crew
1
Overview
This was a suborbital spaceflight that reached 122 km and satisfied all U.S. and international definitions for spacefligiht. With this mission, SpaceShipOne and Scaled Composites won the Ansari X Prize, proving a private company could make a safe, reusable spacecraft.
Crafts
SpaceShipOne
SpaceShipOne flew the first commercial spaceflight in 2004. A suborbital rocket-powered aircraft, SpaceShipOne completed three flights that crossed the 100 km boundary to space.
