IPFS News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Ad Astra per Debitum: The Lunacy of the "Space Race" - by Will Grigg
• Pro LiberateIn August 2004, Mr. Melvill piloted the first privately constructed spacecraft, Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne; Binnie was at the controls on the second flight less than a week later, thereby earning the "X-Prize" for Rutan's company, Scaled Composites.