Michael Winston Mike Melvill (born November 11 1940) is an Earthrounder and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites. Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first flight past the edge of space flight 15P on June 21 2004 thus becoming the first commercial astronaut and the 434th person to go into space. He was also the pilot on SpaceShipOne’s flight 16P the first competitive flight in the Ansari X Prize competition.
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