Mike Melvill reaches space

Today, SpaceShipOne successfully reached the edge of space, making its pilot, South-Africa born American Mike Melvill, the first commercial astronaut. What’s more, SpaceShipOne is the first spaceship that took off horizontally, went to space and landed horizontally, not wasting any parts in the process (except, of course, fuel).

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