SpaceShipOne flight 17P
Final spaceflight in the Tier One program / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flight 17P of SpaceShipOne was a spaceflight in the Tier One program that took place on October 4, 2004. It was the second competitive flight in the Ansari X Prize competition to demonstrate a non-governmental reusable crewed spacecraft, and is hence also referred to as the X2 flight. It was a successful flight, winning the X PRIZE.
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Mission type | Test flight |
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Operator | Scaled Composites |
Mission duration | 24 minutes |
Apogee | 112.01 kilometers (69.60 mi)[1] |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | SpaceShipOne |
Manufacturer | Scaled Composites |
Crew | |
Crew size | 1 |
Members | Brian Binnie |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | October 4, 2004, 14:49 (2004-10-04UTC14:49Z) UTC |
Launch site | White Knight, Mojave |
End of mission | |
Landing date | October 4, 2004, 15:13 (2004-10-04UTC15:14Z) UTC |
Landing site | Mojave |
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