Results: Have you ever heard of SpaceShipOne?

On June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne was designed and developed by an aerospace development company known as Scaled Composites of Mojave in California, which was founded in 1982 by American aircraft designer Burt Rutan. It became the first private manned space vehicle to fly past the boundary of space. The vehicle was flown by South African-born American test pilot Mike Melvill, who successfully soared past the edge of space, becoming the first commercial astronaut-pilot.