by Michael Belfiore | Jul 12, 2021 | Blog
On the morning of October 4, 2004, in Mojave, California, I stood on the flight line of the Mojave Air and Spaceport with 27,000 other spectators looking up. Fifty thousand feet above, a little, three-seat space plane scratched the clear, blue sky, riding out of the...
by Michael Belfiore | Oct 4, 2016 | Blog
On October 4, 2004, commercial astronaut Brian Binnie won the Ansari XPRIZE for flying the first commercial spaceship out of the atmosphere twice within two weeks. That third spaceflight of SpaceShipOne netted $10 million for investor Paul Allen and builder Scaled...
