From MSNBC: “suborbital spaceship being tested by aircraft designer Burt Rutan and his team at Scaled Composites fired its rocket engine and went supersonic for the first time today, on the centennial of the Wright brothers’ historic first flight.”Our flight this morning by SpaceShipOne demonstrated that supersonic flight is now the domain of a small company doing privately funded research, without government help,” Scaled Composites, based in California’s Mojave Desert, said in a news release. “The flight also represents an important milestone in our efforts to demonstrate that truly low-cost space access is feasible.”
