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First Commercial Manned Rocket Blasts Off In Test Launch

MOJAVE, CA - JUNE 20: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen (L) and aerospace engineer, Burt Rutan, laugh during a media conference on the eve of the first non-governmental flight to leave the Earth's atmosphere June 20, 2004 in Mojave, California. The manned SpaceShipOne spacecraft is to be carried to a height of 50,000 by the twin-turbojet high-altitude research aircraft, White Knight, where it will be launched to climb to an altitude of 60 miles. At that height, test pilot Michael Melvill will experience weightlessness and see the sky above as black. SpaceShipOne will re-enter the atmosphere for an un-assisted airstrip landing. Allen is providing financial support and Rutan is heading the effort. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
MOJAVE, CA - JUNE 20: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen (L) and aerospace engineer, Burt Rutan, laugh during a media conference on the eve of the first non-governmental flight to leave the Earth's atmosphere June 20, 2004 in Mojave, California. The manned SpaceShipOne spacecraft is to be carried to a height of 50,000 by the twin-turbojet high-altitude research aircraft, White Knight, where it will be launched to climb to an altitude of 60 miles. At that height, test pilot Michael Melvill will experience weightlessness and see the sky above as black. SpaceShipOne will re-enter the atmosphere for an un-assisted airstrip landing. Allen is providing financial support and Rutan is heading the effort. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
First Commercial Manned Rocket Blasts Off In Test Launch
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