SpaceShipOne: World's First Private Manned Mission To Space

The nose of rocket plane SpaceShipOne with its thermal strips that indicates the temperature the ship experienced during its historic flight. Each stripe of different color burns at a certain temperature (300 oF in this case) .SpaceShipOne made history on

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