Astronomy Cast 350: SpaceShipOne
Channel: astrospherevids
Date: 2014-12-23

This video is sponsored by XE.com 
and Swinburne Astronomy Online (http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/sao/)

SpaceShipOne is the spacecraft created by Scaled Composites to win the $10 million Ansari X-Prize in 2003. It was the first privately built spacecraft to reach 100 km in altitude, twice in two weeks, carrying the equivalent of 3 people. It's the prototype of the upcoming SpaceShipTwo, created for Virgin Galactic to carry paying passengers into space.