Beyond Blue Sky: The Untold Story of the First Private Astronauts
A supersonic physics experiment that would either end in a funeral or aerospace immortality for the desert-dwelling, corner-cutting geniuses, who wanted to prove it was possible to have a low-cost, pr…
Beyond Blue Sky: The Untold Story of the First Private Astronauts
A supersonic physics experiment that would either end in a funeral or aerospace immortality for the desert-dwelling, corner-cutting geniuses, who wanted to prove it was possible to have a low-cost, privately-financed, manned space program. Beyond Blue Sky: The Untold Story of the First Private Astronauts is a 93-minute documentary exploring how from 2001 to 2004, a small team of engineers in California's Mojave Desert built a simulator, a mothership and a rocket-propelled glider in an attempt to have the first, privately-financed, manned space program. This documentary features never-before-seen, death-defying, test flight footage and a stranger-than fiction, thought-provoking, untold, true story behind the birth of private spaceflight as told by people who lived it: Burt Rutan, Brian Binnie, Mike Melvill, Doug Shane, Matt Stinemetze, Sally Melville and Valerie Binnie.
Beyond Blue Sky: The Untold Story of the First Private Astronauts
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A supersonic physics experiment that would either end in a funeral or aerospace immortality for the desert-dwelling, corner-cutting geniuses, who wanted to prove it was possible to have a low-cost, privately-financed, manned space program. Beyond Blue Sky: The Untold Story of the First Private Astronauts is a 93-minute documentary exploring how from 2001 to 2004, a small team of engineers in California's Mojave Desert built a simulator, a mothership and a rocket-propelled glider in an attempt to have the first, privately-financed, manned space program. This documentary features never-before-seen, death-defying, test flight footage and a stranger-than fiction, thought-provoking, untold, true story behind the birth of private spaceflight as told by people who lived it: Burt Rutan, Brian Binnie, Mike Melvill, Doug Shane, Matt Stinemetze, Sally Melville and Valerie Binnie..