2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent
SpaceShipOne
First privately funded crewed spacecraft to reach space twice.
Era 4 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- year known only: 2004
- Lead / partner
- Scaled Composites
- Target
- Suborbital space
- Category
- Commercial human spaceflight
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- unknown
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- unknown
Why it happened
SpaceShipOne flew during 2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent, as part of Scaled Composites's work toward suborbital space. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: First privately funded crewed spacecraft to reach space twice.
Results
First privately funded crewed spacecraft to reach space twice.
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Sources & image credits
- Don Ramey Logan, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · license: cc-by-sa-3.0 (source, checked 2026-08-23)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog
