SpaceShipOne Flies

Scaled Composites made the first joined flight of its Tier One man- ned space program last week, with the White Knight mother ship carrying the SpaceShipOne rocket-powered glider to nearly 50,000 ft. The company hopes to reach 100-km. altitude (328,000 ft.) by the end of the year with the air...

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