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	Brian Binnie - TheBestLinks.com - AV-8 Harrier II, Brown University, December 17, October 4, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Brian Binnie is one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites.
		Binnie, an alumnus of Brown and Princeton Universities, served for 20 years in the United States Navy as a F/A-18 pilot, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in 1988.
		As one of the four qualified pilots for SpaceShipOne, Binnie may fly of one of the launches of the craft later in 2004 to meet the requirements of the Ansari X Prize.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Brian_Binnie.html (191 words)

	SpaceShipOne pilot keynotes awards lunch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Binnie is currently one of five test pilots working for a company called Scaled Composites founded and operated by famed maverick aircraft designer Burt Rutan, whose unusual aircraft Voyager, the first airplane to circle the globe non-stop and without refueling, is one of 40 innovative aircraft Rutan has developed since 1972.
		Binnie then showed an exterior view of the same landing, which showed the aircraft landing smoothly and decelerating until the left landing gear suddenly collapsed, skewing the rocket plane off the runway and into the weeds.
		Binnie said the next flight of SpaceShipOne will attempt to break Mach 2.5 and reach an altitude of 250,000 feet (47.3 miles); the date and pilot of the flight are still to be determined and probably will not be announced in advance, in keeping with Rutan's policy.
	www.dcmilitary.com /navy/tester/9_17/features/28786-1.html (1416 words)

	Former Point Mugu test pilot flies Space Ship One into space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Brian Binnie, a retired Navy Commander and former deputy department head for the NAWC Electronic Warfare department, flew the October mission that would earn the company of his current employer, Scaled Incorporated, the highest sum ever awarded to an aerospace company for the spectacular feat it accomplished.
		Binnie and his wife "Bub" have three children, Justin 20, Jonathan 18 and Jennifer 16, all of whom are avid swimmers.
		Binnie is an avid golfer and spends as much time as he can in the gym to stay in shape.
	www.dcmilitary.com /navy/tester/10_10/features/33704-1.html (533 words)

	SPACE.com -- SpaceShipOne Wins $10 Million Ansari X Prize in Historic 2nd Trip to Space
		Pilot Brian Binnie waves from a porthole as SpaceShipOne is carried underneath the White Knight aircraft as it taxis to takeoff in its quest to win the Ansari X Prize at Mojave, Calif., Airport, Monday, Oct. 4, 2004.
		With pilot Brian Binnie at the controls, SpaceShipOne rockets skyward towards suborbital space during its second flight in less than a week in pursuit of the Ansari X Prize.
		With pilot Brian Binnie at the controls, SpaceShipOne rocketed to a winning height of 367,442 feet (112 kilometers), setting a new altitude record for the craft and proving that private industry can build a viable vehicle for sending paying passengers to space.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/xprize2_success_041004.html (1393 words)

	roanoke.com - New River Valley Current -Space is the place, Binnie says after historic flight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Binnie spent about 4 1/2 minutes in a weightless environment, able to reflect on the previous 90 seconds of chaos.
		Binnie, 51, said he is looking forward to visiting Tech and discussing the demands and idiosyncracies of engineering with people who can appreciate it.
		Binnie's space training began when the Boston native went to Brown University for a bachelor's in aerospace engineering and master's in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics.
	www.roanoke.com /news/nrv\18371.html (652 words)

	Royce Carlton - Brian Binnie Civilian Astronaut SpaceShipOne Scaled Composites
		Reaching a record altitude of nearly 70 miles, Binnie earned his astronaut wings and captured the $10 million X Prize, the international competition created to kickstart private space exploration.
		Binnie and Scaled Composites have come a long way since that first test flight.
		In his speeches (which include footage of his milestone flight), Binnie vividly recounts his journey into space and the thrill of bringing home the $10 million prize.
	www.roycecarlton.com /speakers/binnie.html (480 words)

	SpaceShipOne wins the XPrize - pictures by Stratofox team members
		Brian Binnie holds the flag for the crowd as SpaceShipOne is towed further down Taxiway Alpha for the general public to see.
		Brian Binnie holds the flag for the crowd as SpaceShipOne is towed from the general public viewing area back to the Scaled hangar.
		Brian was bound for the pilot debriefing and then the main press conference.
	www.stratofox.org /pics/ss1-xprize-2004/x2-ss1-crowd.html (959 words)

	The Times Reporter
		SpaceShipOne, with pilot Brian Binnie at the controls, separates from the White Knight aircraft as it heads for space Monday.
		Binnie, a graduate of the Navy test pilot school, was at the controls when SpaceShipOne broke the sound barrier for the first time on a December test flight, which was marred when the craft hit the runway hard upon landing and veered into the brush where a landing gear collapsed.
		Word of Binnie’s accomplishment was relayed by NASA to the two men aboard the international space station, astronaut Mike Fincke and cosmonaut Gennady Padalka.
	www.timesreporter.com /archive/left_archive.php?ID=34309&r=2 (858 words)

	STLtoday - News - Special Reports
		Astronaut Brian Binnie rides on SpaceShip One after his suborbital flight to win the Ansari X Prize in Mojave, Calif.
		Monday's adventure was the third flight to space for the buglike ship, which was commanded this time by pilot by Brian Binnie.
		Binnie, 51, spoke at a news conference before rows of reporters sitting in old airline seats.
	www.stltoday.com /stltoday/news/special/xprize.nsf/0/8134B526502FE5DA86256F25007031C8?OpenDocument (932 words)

	New astronaut set for $10 million flight - The New Space Race - MSNBC.com
		Brian Binnie sits in the cockpit of SpaceShipOne for a gliding test flight last Dec. 4.
		Brian Binnie, a 51-year-old test pilot who has flown the White Knight carrier airplane during SpaceShipOne's two previous spaceflights, this time will be at the controls of the spaceship itself, the St. Louis-based X Prize Foundation announced early Monday.
		Binnie has 21 years of flight test experience, including a test hop in the Roton rocket, an earlier effort to develop a reusable space vehicle.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6172907 (1571 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Science -- $10 million space shot
		Binnie easily surpassed the day's goal by soaring to 367,442 feet, or roughly 69 miles.
		That topped Melvill's Sept. 29 flight of 337,000 feet, as well as the previous record for a rocket plane of 354,000 feet, which was set in 1963 by the X-15, operated by NASA and the Air Force.
		Rutan, who is known for his candor, declared that the low cost and safety of Binnie's flight would send shock waves through NASA and the aerospace industry.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/science/20041005-9999-1n5xprize.html (1158 words)

	Binnie
		Binnie logged over 4300 flight hours, during five operational carrier tours that included 490 arrested landings as well as combat operations associated with all of Desert Shield, Desert Storm and subsequently Operation Southern Watch.
		Brian's educational background includes a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and an M.S. in Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics from Brown University and an M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Princeton University.
		Binnie reconfigured the vehicle to a glider at 15.5 km and then made an 18 minute glide to a landing at Mojave airport.
	www.astronautix.com /astros/binnie.htm (3437 words)

	Wired News: SpaceShipOne Wins the X Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Binnie soared to a radar-verified altitude of 367,442 feet.
		At a press conference after the landing, Binnie said, "I wake up every morning and thank God I live in a country where all of this is possible.
		Let's just keep it straight.'" Binnie said the team's intensive study of the rolls during Melvill's flight led to a recommendation to change some control procedures; the changes did, indeed, keep the flight straight.
	www.wired.com /news/print/0,1294,65212,00.html (1108 words)

	SpaceShipOne wins $10 million X Prize - The New Space Race - MSNBC.com
		The president said Binnie and fellow pilot Mike Melvill, who flew the first of the two qualifying flights last Wednesday, ranked among the heroes of the new space age, Diamandis said.
		The 51-year-old Binnie has 21 years of flight test experience, and was at the controls for SpaceShipOne's first powered, supersonic flight on Dec. 17, the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' milestone flight.
		Binnie said the space mission was "a fantastic experience," with the "bright pearl" of the California coast visible beneath the flness of space.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6167761 (1954 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		Brian Binnie, the pilot on board right now will get right to it, do a quick checklist and hit that button.
		Brian Binnie is going to make the attempt for space today.
		And then you have Brian Binnie on the other side of it, kind of the conventional test pilot route.
	www-cgi.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0410/04/lt.03.html (3274 words)

	Virginia Tech News -- Story
		Binnie's flight into space also secured the $10 million Ansari X Prize, an international competition established by a nonprofit foundation to encourage private development of commercial space travel.
		Binnie's appearance is sponsored by Performance Associates Inc., a firm owned by Pat Artis, a graduate of Virginia Tech's Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM), and his wife, Nancy.
		Binnie earned his undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering and master's degree in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics from Brown University and a second master's in aeronautical engineering from Princeton University.
	www.vtnews.vt.edu /story.php?itemno=520 (385 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| SpaceShipOne News \| Mission Status Center
		SpaceShipOne, flown by veteran test pilot Brian Binnie, rocketed into space history today, climbing higher than 62 miles for the second time in five days in a bid to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize for designer Burt Rutan and financial backer Paul Allen.
		SpaceShipOne pilot Brian Binnie is sticking his hand out a porthole window, waving to the crowds lining the runway.
		Binnie was at the controls last December when he made the first supersonic flight in SpaceShipOne.
	spaceflightnow.com /ss1/status.html (2622 words)

	FINAL REFLECTIONS FROM MOJAVE
		FAA Administrator Marion Blakey, on hand for the historic launch, presented Brian Binnie with a pair of civilian astronaut wings during Monday’s post-flight press briefing.
		Brian and Mike have really opened a new frontier in terms of commercial human space flight, and we want to recognize their achievements because they have been tremendous and a giant leap for all of us.”
		Binnie also made a historic flight on Dec. 17, 2003, the centennial of the Wright Brothers’ first successful powered flight at Kitty Hawk, when he flew SpaceShipOne’s first powered flight past the speed of sound.
	www.eaa.org /communications/eaanews/041005_recap.html (1019 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Science -- SpaceShipOne breaks Earth's atmosphere again to win $10 million prize for ...
		SpaceShipOne with pilot Brian Binnie at the controls touches down after soaring into space in its quest to win the Ansari X Prize at Mojave (Calif.) Airport.
		Pilot Brian Binnie waves from a porthole as SpaceShipOne is carried underneath the White Knight aircraft as it taxis to takeoff in its quest to win the Ansari X Prize at Mojave.
		The choice of Brian Binnie as Monday's pilot was kept secret until hours before the scheduled takeoff.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/science/20041004-0829-privatespaceship.html (593 words)

	CNN.com - Test rocket flight ends in minor mishap - Dec. 25, 2003
		SpaceShipOne test pilot Brian Binnie was not injured, and the builder, Scaled Composites LLC, said damage to the craft will be easily repaired.
		Binnie then put the craft into a vertical climb that topped out at 68,000 feet, the company said.
		Binnie reconfigured the craft to its conventional shape and glided to touchdown when the left landing gear collapsed.
	www.cnn.com /2003/TECH/space/12/18/private.rocket.ap (387 words)

	Privately financed spaceship wins prize / Craft makes 2nd successful flight to claim $10 million
		Built by designer Burt Rutan and steered by veteran test pilot Brian Binnie, the SpaceShipOne was carried aloft at dawn Monday by its mother ship White Knight, which resembles a giant dragonfly.
		At the craft's apogee, Binnie experienced about three minutes of weightlessness and saw the curvature of the Earth below and fl void above as he became the 434th human in space and only the second astronaut to get there without the help of a government.
		Binnie was greeted on the tarmac by Rutan and his financial backer, Paul Allen, the billionaire cofounder of Microsoft, who put $25 million into the project.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/05/MNGKE9420O1.DTL (1004 words)

	http://www.trinidadexpress.com - An excess of nationalism - By Gwynne Dyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was a great achievement, redolent of the 1930s and yet relevant to the future-and then Brian Binnie had to go and ruin it.
		Brian Binnie crowed about how his God had put his country ahead of all the rest because that is the example he has been shown by his leaders and his media.
		Much of the public space is taken up by ritualistic self-congratulation of the crudest kind, and Brian Binnie was just going with the flow.
	www.trinidadexpress.com /index.pl/print?id=41787120 (838 words)

	Blog of SpaceShipOne's Second X-Prize Flight (Space Ship One)
		The pilot Brian Binnie is getting out and will talk to the press.
		Brian Binnie is now the second civilian astronaut.
		The last time Brian flew SS1, he crashed on the landing, the wheels buckling because he came down too fast.
	256.com /gray/blog/2004/10/04_3/xprize_space_ship_one_2nd_flight_blog.html (2164 words)

	Virgin Galactic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Brian Binnie piloted Paul Allen's SpaceShipOne on its third trip into space, and its second Ansari X Prize qualifying flight.
		Brian Binnie is more used to flying the mother ship White Knight, than he is SpaceShipOne, but today, he and Mike Melvill traded places.
		Mike took the controls of White Knight to fly Brian up to around 55,000 feet, where SpaceShipOne was released, before rocketing up to a record-breaking height of 368,000 feet in just over a minute.
	www.virgingalactic.com /news.asp (531 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: SpaceShipOne wins $10 million X Prize
		It was released at about 46,000 feet, and test pilot Brian Binnie fired its rockets to continue to the edge of space at three times the speed of sound.
		Word of Binnie's accomplishment was relayed from Mission Control to the two people aboard the international space station, astronaut Mike Fincke and cosmonaut Gennady Padalka.
		The choice of Binnie as today's pilot was kept secret until hours before the scheduled takeoff.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002053516_webspaceshipone04.html (590 words)

	Astronomy - And the winner is … SpaceShipOne - Bill McCoy
		Binnie flew SpaceShipOne to 367,442 feet (69.6 miles, or 112 km), clinching the X Prize and soaring 13,000 feet above an unofficial altitude record set in 1963 by the experimental X-15.
		David McNeely and Mike Veno, both of SpaceDev, the company that developed the spacecraft's rocket, stood together with their colleagues, waving signs reading "Powered by SpaceDev." "I was standing next to Mike, who was on his radio, listening to the control room from the VIP section," recalled McNeely.
		After Monday's flawless flight and landing, Binnie emerged from the craft's side hatch, where he was met by his wife.
	www.astronomy.com /asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=2513 (1250 words)

	BAM: High Hopes: Brian Binnie ’75, ’76 ScM, The Classes, May/June 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Binnie guided the bizarre-looking craft down a California runway, but the project ran out of funding.
		On December 13, Binnie was at the controls of SpaceShipOne, a prototype “rocket plane,” as it broke the sound barrier over the California desert.
		Binnie, one of three Scaled Composites pilots, is optimistic about the X Prize, and hopes to be one of the world’s first commercial astronauts.
	www.brownalumnimagazine.com /storydetail.cfm?ID=2340 (409 words)

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