Space Ship One, the spaceplane that completed the first privately funded human spaceflight, on diplay at The Smithsonian.

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SpaceShipOne is a spaceplane that completed the first privately funded human spaceflight on June 21, 2004. It was developed by Scaled Composites. SpaceShipOne was an experimental air-launched suborbital spaceplane that used a hybrid rocket motor. Also in the photograph is the Bell X-1, a joint Army Air Forces/US Air Force supersonic research project and the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in controlled, level flight.

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Size: 5081px × 3387px
Location: Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Washington, , USA
Photo credit: © Ryan McGinnis / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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