Scaled Composites Tier One
Suborbital human spaceflight program using the reusable spacecraft SpaceShipOne / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tier One was a Scaled Composites' 1990s–2004 program of suborbital human spaceflight using the reusable spacecraft SpaceShipOne and its launcher White Knight. The craft was designed by Burt Rutan, and the project was funded 20 million US Dollars by Paul Allen. In 2004 it made the first privately funded human spaceflight and won the 10 million US Dollars Ansari X Prize for the first non-governmental reusable crewed spacecraft.
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The objective of the project was to develop technology for low-cost routine access to space. SpaceShipOne was not itself intended to carry paying passengers, but was envisioned that there would be commercial spinoffs, initially in space tourism. The company Mojave Aerospace Ventures was formed[when?] to manage commercial exploitation of the technology. A deal[clarification needed] with Virgin Galactic could see routine space tourism in the late 2010s using a spacecraft based on Tier One technology.[needs update]