Tags: Aircraft.
SpaceShipOne is a suborbital air-launched spaceplane that completed the first manned private spaceflight in 2004. That same year it won the US$10 million Ansari X Prize and was immediately retired from active service. Its mother ship was named White Knight. Both craft were developed and flown by Mojave Aerospace Ventures which was a joint venture between Paul Allen and Scaled Composites Burt Rutan’s aviation company.
