Mike Melvill
Mike Melvill
Michael Winston "Mike" Melvillis an Earthrounder and 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 and the 434th person to go into space. He was also the pilot on SpaceShipOne's flight 16P, the first competitive flight in the Ansari X Prize competition...
ProfessionPilot
Date of Birth11 November 1940
amazing enterprise money private small ways
Private enterprise can do things in many ways much more efficiently, ... As small as we are and as little money as we had, we did amazing things.
clouds flight la looked looking seeing snow white
The flight was spectacular. Looking out that window, seeing the white clouds in the LA Basin, it looked like snow on the ground.
caused nice quickly roll stepped top
Probably, I stepped on something too quickly and caused the roll, ... It's nice to do a roll at the top of the climb.
busy emotional flying
I wasn't doing any psychological or emotional evaluations... I was busy flying an airplane! I don't know what you were doing...
heart teeth my-heart
I've got tooth marks on my heart.