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	Mike Melvill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael W. Melvill (born November 1941) is one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites.
		Melvill is an associate fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots; in 1999, he received their Iven C. Kincheloe trophy for his work in high-altitude development testing Scaled's Model 281 Proteus.
		Melvill was the pilot for SpaceShipOne flight 15P, SpaceShipOne's first spaceflight and the first privately-funded human spaceflight mission, on the morning of June 21, 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Melvill (330 words)

	mike melvill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Michael W. Melvill (born November 1940?) is one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites.
		Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first flight past the edge of space, flight 15P on June 21, 2004, thus becoming the first commercial astronaut.
		Melvill is an associate fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots; in 1999, he received their Ivan C. Kincheloe trophy for his work in high-altitude development testing the 281 Proteus aircraft.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /mike_melvill.html (340 words)

	Mike Melvill - Wikipedia
		Melvill var pilot i SpaceShipOne på dets første flyvning forbi den officielle grænse for rummet, "SpaceShipOne flight 15P" den 21.
		To timer efter landingen fik Melvill ved en ceremoni tildelt astronautvinger.
		Mike Melvill stammer oprindeligt fra Durban, Sydafrika, men i 1970'erne flyttede han til USA fra England, og han er sidenhen blevet amerikansk statsborger.
	da.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Melvill (93 words)

	Mike Melvill - Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia
		Melvill 21 czerwca 2004 roku dotarł na pokładzie SpaceShipOne w przestrzeń kosmiczną, stając się pierwszym pozarządowym astronautą.
		Melvill miał ogromne doświadczenie jako oblatywacz, spędził 7000 godzin za sterami ponad 130 typów pojazdów latających.
		W roku 1999 Melvill otrzymał nagrodę imienia Ivana C. Kincheloe za pracę nad samolotem wysokościowy 281 Proteus.
	pl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Melvill (297 words)

	Mike Melvill -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Melvill also built his own (Click link for more info and facts about Long EZ) Long EZ aircraft, which he flew around the world with (Click link for more info and facts about Dick Rutan) Dick Rutan in 1997.
		Melvill was the pilot for (Click link for more info and facts about SpaceShipOne flight 15P) SpaceShipOne flight 15P, SpaceShipOne's first spaceflight and the first privately-funded (Click link for more info and facts about human spaceflight) human spaceflight mission, on the morning of June 21, 2004.
		In a ceremony two hours after landing, Melvill was awarded his (Click link for more info and facts about astronaut wings) astronaut wings, the first person to earn them for a spaceplane flight since the (Click link for more info and facts about X-15) X-15 flights of the (The decade from 1960 to 1969) 1960s.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Mi/Mike_Melvill.htm (326 words)

	Mike Melvill speaks about SpaceShipOne
		On the first venture into space Mike Melvill was at the controls and on the second flight Brian Binnie piloted the flight to a height of 69.6 miles.
		Melvill reported this was the most effective braking material the designers and engineers could find.
		Melvill said he knew he was going to have this motor strapped onto his back soon and he wanted to know how much it vibrated, how hot it got, and how loud it was.
	www.iflyamerica.org /SpaceShipOne.asp (1742 words)

	USATODAY.com - SpaceShipOne pilot Melvill still looking up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Melvill spent an hour chatting with reporters and Grumman workers, as he walked around and inspected the Proteus in preparation for a flight back toward the West Coast.
		Mike Melvill, a test pilot with more than 7,000 flight hours and the world's first commercial astronaut, started flying more for convenience than anything else.
		Melvill built an airplane from a set of design drawings he bought from Rutan more than two decades ago, at a time when the relatively unknown designer was selling plane drawings from the trunk of his car.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/space/2004-11-18-melvill-bio_x.htm (1186 words)

	Royce Carlton - Michael Melvill First Civilian Astronaut SpaceShipOne Scaled Composites
		Mike Melvill is now known the world over as the first civilian to fly an aircraft into space and the first private pilot to earn astronaut wings.
		In his speeches (which include footage of his milestone flights), Melvill recounts the thrilling and sometimes terrifying moments of his historic flights and inspires others to reach for the sky.
		A native of South Africa, Melvill was hired by Scaled Composites in 1978.
	www.roycecarlton.com /speakers/melvill.html (451 words)

	Space News from the Space Coast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Melvill, who will pilot the SpaceShipOne spacecraft into suborbital space, talks with reporters after his introduction Sunday.
		The 62-year-old test pilot is scheduled to fly a star-spangled rocket plane on a suborbital jaunt today, and in doing so, become the first civilian pilot to cross the boundary of space in a privately financed ship.
		Melvill then will fire a rocket motor powered by synthetic rubber and liquefied laughing gas for 80 seconds, propelling SpaceShipOne on a straight-up climb.
	www.floridatoday.com /news/space/stories/2004b/spacestoryN0621SPACESHIPONE.htm (535 words)

	SpaceShipOne - Wikipédia
		Mike Melvill antes da partida para o voo inaugural
		Neste vôo sub-orbital, o astronauta Mike Melvill, depois de atingir o espaço, abriu um saco de confeitos de chocolate e ficou a olhar para elas enquanto pairavam no ar.
		A SpaceShipOne conquistou o X PRIZE ao atingir os 100 km de altitude em dois vôos consecutivos com apenas uma semana de diferença (em 29 de setembro e 4 de outubro de 2004), sendo financiado apenas por fundos privados.
	pt.wikipedia.org /wiki/SpaceShipOne (536 words)

	The Herald : News
		MIKE Melvill, the South Africanborn pilot of the world’s first privately funded space mission this week, says a part of him remains proudly South African and he still has strong ties to the country despite the fact that he left here almost 25 years ago.
		Mrs Melvill said of her husband yesterday: “Mike is always cool — that is how he manages to keep on top of his work.
		Mrs Melvill said that when her husband had finished the job Mr Rutan was so impressed that he invited the Melvills to work for him at his aerospace company, Scaled Composites, at the Mojave Airport, about 160km from Los Angeles.
	www.epherald.co.za /herald/2004/06/24/news/n08_24062004.htm (946 words)

	Private space mission reaches goal 62 miles up \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		The space agency later issued a statement that applauded Rutan, Allen and Melvill for the flight, which was the culmination of a five-year effort.
		The problems included an unexpected roll soon after Melvill ignited the rocket engine, a malfunction in systems control, and a loud bang that was later traced to a flange surrounding the rocket nozzle.
		Melvill flipped the switch on the rocket engine at 7:45 a.m., a few seconds after SpaceShipOne was released by the White Knight.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040622/news_1n22rocket.html (1160 words)

	Private rocket ship breaks space barrier - The New Space Race - MSNBC.com
		Melvill's flight has turned him into the new star on the space scene, and he was being courted by late-night and morning news TV shows.
		In addition, Melvill had to deal with a roll of the rocket plane during its ascent, and was surprised by an unexpected booming sound.
		Afterward, Melvill and Rutan said the boom was apparently caused by the buckling of a fairing that was added to the rocket plane's engine nozzle for this record-setting flight.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/5261571 (1610 words)

	USATODAY.com - Privately funded plane touches space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Melvill had to battle to stabilize the craft, and the vehicle barely made it to 62 miles in altitude, widely considered the threshold where space begins.
		Melvill's flight was the most significant step taken yet by the craft's creators toward winning the "X Prize," a $10 million reward for the first private effort to fly a manned vehicle into space without government aid.
		Melvill, who was born in South Africa, is a test pilot who has worked for decades with Burt Rutan, the spacecraft's designer.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/techinnovations/2004-06-21-spaceshipone-launchday_x.htm (1006 words)

	Goleta Air and Space Museum: SpaceShipOne
		Paul Allen, Mike Melvill, and Burt Rutan discuss the flight and the promise of future private space ventures.
		Mike Melvill stands atop SpaceShipOne with a banner reading, "SpaceShipOne, Government Zero" as it is towed along the taxiway.
		Mike Melvill stands atop SpaceShipOne as it is towed back to the Scaled Composites hangar at 8:55 A.M. A lot of data reduction and a big party are sure to follow.
	www.air-and-space.com /SpaceShipOne.htm (1087 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Science -- Pilot named for first private manned spaceflight
		Mike Melvill, 62, will pilot SpaceShipOne in an attempt to reach an altitude of 62 miles Monday, aerospace designer Burt Rutan and program financier Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft Corp., said during a press conference at Mojave Airport.
		Melvill, who holds records for altitude and speed in various classes of aircraft, has logged more than 6,400 hours of flight time in 111 fixed-wing aircraft and seven helicopters.
		Originally from Durban, South Africa, Melvill and his wife, Sally, moved to the United States from England in the 1970s and he is now a U.S. citizen.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/science/20040620-1523-ca-privaterocket.html (573 words)

	spacetoday.net: Melvill to fly SpaceShipOne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mike Melvill, the pilot who flew SpaceShipOne on its historic suborbital spaceflight in June, will fly the vehicle again Wednesday morning, Ansari X Prize officials announced hours before the flight.
		The selection of the pilot for the first of two flights was shrouded in secrecy prior to the announcement; Rutan himself declined to identify the pilot during a press briefing Tuesday afternoon.
		After the flight Melvill hinted that he did not plan to fly the vehicle again, letting one of two other Scaled Composites pilots fly the vehicle on its two X Prize qualifying flights.
	www.spacetoday.net /Summary/2579 (209 words)

	Melvill
		Mike Melvill is Vice President/General Manager and a Test Pilot at Scaled Composites, LLC in Mojave, California.
		Melvill was prepared to burn the motor up to 89 seconds, which indicates significant additional performance remains in SS1.
		During the motor burn the spacecraft began to roll uncontrollably, but Melvill pressed on despite advice from the ground to shut the motor down and abort the attempt.
	www.astronautix.com /astros/melvill.htm (2684 words)

	SPACE.com -- Pilot Announced on Eve of Private Space Mission
		Pilot Mike Melvill controls SpaceShipOne during sixth glide to a desert landing strip.
		Melvill is a test pilot and vice president/general manager at Scaled Composites, LLC.
		Melvill was at the controls of SpaceShipOnes last flight in May. He has a number of aviation records to his name.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/SS1_pilot_040620.html (860 words)

	Dispatch Online - Your premier Eastern Cape news site
		Melvill recalled flying into Cape Town in 1997 during a three-month round-the-world trip in the Long-EZ experimental aircraft he had built.
		Melvill made history on Monday when he piloted the privately funded and built SpaceShipOne experimental aircraft into the flness of sub-orbital space about 100km up before returning to earth.
		Melvill was born in Johannesburg in 1940 and his parents moved to Durban when he was young.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2004/06/24/Easterncape/bspace.html (676 words)

	CBS News \| SpaceShipOne Rockets Into History \| June 22, 2004 04:02:43
		Pilot Mike Melvill quickly activated a backup system that "saved the day," but by the time the roll problem was corrected, SpaceShipOne was off course.
		But that was enough to earn Melvill his commercial astronaut wings from the Department of Transportation and recognition by the Guiness World Records organization as the first privately funded manned spaceflight.
		Melvill's long hours of training paid off when "there were a couple of things that happened that were unusual compared to the last flight."
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/06/20/tech/main624957.shtml (2920 words)

	Mike Melvill,
		Mike Melvill vient d'atterir Saluant la foule, le bras sorti par un hublot de SpaceShipOne comme s'il partait pour un vol.
		Mike Melvill assis sur SpaceShipOne après l'atterrissage Saluant la foule, le bras sorti par un hublot de SpaceShipOne com.
		Mike Melvill vient d'atterrir Saluant la foule, le bras sorti par un hublot de SpaceShipOne comme s'il partait pour un vol.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0922173.html (385 words)

	CBS News \| SpaceShipOne Rockets Into History \| June 22, 2004 04:02:43
		All in all, it was a triumphant moment for Rutan, Allen, Melvill and the small cadre of engineers and pilots at Rutan's company, Scaled Composites, who worked around the clock in relative obscurity to build the first commercial spacecraft.
		Melvill adjusted the craft's roll, pitch and yaw trim to insure the proper orientation for rocket ignition and broke a copper wire preventing an inadvertent launch.
		Rutan said a loud "bang" heard by Melvill during his sub-orbital flight may have been caused by the crumpling of a thin fairing near the rocket motor's exhaust nozzle.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/06/20/tech/printable624957.shtml (2920 words)

	SPACE.com -- First Civilian Astronaut Pilots SpaceShipOne into Suborbit
		Mike Melvill and his SpaceShipOne have made it into space.
		Pilot Melvill then lights the rocket planes hybrid rocket motor for 80 seconds, pushing the craft onto a suborbital trajectory to the edge of space.
		SpaceShipOnes last flight on May 13 burned its hybrid motor for 55 seconds, enabling the crafts pilot, Mike Melvill, to coast to a height of 211,400 feet (approximately 40 miles).
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/SS1_airborne_040621.html (1264 words)

	XCOR Press Release: EZ-Rocket restarts engines in flight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Audible are Mike Melville in the EZ-Rocket, Dick Rutan on chase and Buzz Lange on the ground.
		Today's flight was piloted by Mike Melvill, a highly experienced test pilot assisting XCOR.
		With the chase plane in position, Melvill shut down one rocket engine for 19 seconds and then re-started the engine.
	www.xcor.com /ez-relite-content.html (324 words)

	CNN.com - Private craft soars into space, history - Jun 23, 2004
		Melvill said once he reached weightlessness, he opened a bag of MandM's in the cockpit, and the candies floated for three minutes while the ship soared high above California.
		A loud bang Melvill heard during the flight appeared to be a nonessential part of the composite airframe buckling near the rocket nozzle.
		Melvill, 63, picked up the nation's first pair of commercial astronaut's wings from the Federal Aviation Administration.
	www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/space/06/21/suborbital.test (1114 words)

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