NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Day to Day technology correspondent Xeni Jardin about the second flight of SpaceShipOne, the first commercially sponsored spacecraft. With the success of the second ...

SpaceShipOne, with pilot Brian Binnie at the controls, rolls onto the runway tucked under its White Knight mothership during its second Anasari X Prize flight attempt on Oct. 4, 2004.(Image credit ...

Are we witnessing the birth of a commercial space flight industry? Day to Day technology contributor Xeni Jardin reports on Wednesday's launch of SpaceShipOne. The craft is the top competitor in ...

SpaceShipOne flew back into space early Monday, winning the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight and breaking an X-15 altitude record.

White Knight and SpaceShipOne taxi down the runway in preparation prepare for their first X-Prize flight September 29, 2004. Bill McCoy ...

SpaceShipOne, seen here after its first flight in June, will take to the skies again tonight (Image: Reuters/Mike Blake) ...

Three of the five manned space flights of 2004 were flownfrom Mojave, California. ?SpaceShipOne was my 39th manned aircraft type to be flight tested and wasclearly the most significant,? Rutan said. ?

SpaceShipOne's team has made a date with history for June 21, setting the first full day of summer as launch day for the first piloted spaceflight in a privately developed craft.

EVERETT — Part of the history of space flight is now on display in Snohomish County. A full-size replica of SpaceShipOne, the first privately built rocket to take passengers into space, was ...

Three of the five manned space flights of 2004 were flown from Mojave, California. "SpaceShipOne was my 39th manned aircraft type to be flight tested and was clearly the most significant," Rutan said.

SpaceShipOne (search) is one flight away from clinching the Ansari X Prize (search), a $10 million award for the first privately developed manned rocket to reach space twice within 14 days.

The US rocket plane SpaceShipOne has landed back in California’s Mojave desert after what organisers said was a successful flight into space.