June 21, 2004
Space Ship One Photos
Here's a portion of the crowd. The hanger behind them is what passes for a vehicle assembly building. Unlike NASA's, it doesn't move, but the doors do open and close.
The assembled vehicle rolling down to the takeoff point. The sun is directly across the runway. Sorry.
The vehicle on its takeoff roll.
Early in the climb. It took an hour to get to the separation point of 50,000 feet. Unfortunately, the separation point was too close to the sun from our vantage point to get a usable picture.
SpaceShipOne just before touchdown. Note one of the chase planes following it down. The other plane sheared off and landed later.