![]() The craft touched down like a regular airplane at 11:14 a.m. The top altitude was confirmed by radar while SpaceShipOne was gliding back to Earth. Louis, Missouri in order to win the cash prize. Seconds after being released from the White Knight carrier plane somewhere above 46,000 feet, Binnie ignited SpaceShipOne's hybrid rocket motor, boosting the craft well above the target point of 62 miles (100 kilometers) required by the X Prize Foundation of St. This flight couldn't have been any smoother." This is rocket science.this is real first-class, top-line rocket science executed to an incredible degree of precision. "I've been involved in technology for awhile. ![]() ![]() "It's really an incredible feat of technology," Allen said. At a post-flight press briefing, Rick Searfoss, a former shuttle astronaut and now chief judge for the Ansari X Prize, stated: "I declare that the Mojave Aerospace Ventures has indeed earned the Ansari X Prize."īinnie was the 434 th human to have left our planet to go into space, Searfoss noted. ![]()
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