First Manned Commercial Flight
Scaled Composites, Mojave Spaceport


At dawn the first aircraft start to stir


Scaled Composite's White Knight and Spaceship One taxi down the runway and prepare for takeoff



Starship One, the camera plane, gets ready for takeoff


The chase jet for Spaceship One prepares taxis down the runway


The White Knight and Spaceship One circle ever higher to achieve the altitude where Spaceship One will fir its rocket engine


Spaceship One fires its rocket and hurtles towards the edge of space


The White Knight does a flyby as it returns to earth


Starship One and the other chase planes fly overhead before landing


Mike Melvill, the first comercial FAA recognized astronaut stands atop his rocketship, waving to the crowd





We get one last picture before we return home

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