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Scaled Composites ’ SpaceShipOne won the Ansari X Prize 8 years after it was announced.
The $10 million “X Prize” was offered to the first non-government team to build a reusable spacecraft and fly it into space, as defined by the Karman line, twice within two weeks .
Over two dozen teams across the globe competed for the prize.
SpaceShipOne made its first flight on August 1, 2002 .
Powered by a pair of afterburning GE J85 -series jet engines, the craft can carry payloads as high as 16 kilometers .
The craft could reach speeds of up to 900 meters per second or Mach 3 .
Flight 16P got underway with the take off of White Knight at 7:11 AM PDT on September 29, 2004 .
SpaceShipOne reached a peak altitude of 102.9 kilometers comfortably exceeding the Karman line and satisfying the Ansari X Prize requirements.
The team had just 14 days to repeat their feat to win the X-Prize .
The flight ended with a successful landing at the Mojave Spaceport after a flight of 24 minutes and 11 seconds .
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