Ten years ago today, SpaceShipOne and pilot Mike Melvill blasted just past the Earths atmosphere into space, marking beginning of commercial spaceflight. The Paul Allen-funded project successfully became the first privately-financed human spaceflight, and after its success it seemed that commercial space travel was just around the corner. Richard Bransons quest to open space travel to all has seen hundreds of millions of dollars sunk into the SpaceShipTwo project, a space vessel that builds off of its predecessor. Despite the quiet decade since SpaceShipOnes flights, however, we should soon see another flurry of activity in commercial space travel: Virgin Galactic hopes to begin flights this year, and competitors like XCOR and Blue Origin are continuing testing.
Ten years ago, SpaceShipOne completed the first private flight into space
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