Rolling In SpaceShipOne - Mike Melville Pilot | Video

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 17:00 in Physics & Chemistry

Pilot Mike Melville rode a rapidly rolling SpaceShipOne during Scaled Composite's first competitive flight for the Ansari X PRIZE on September 2004. The craft rolled 29 times at 130 degrees per second. Melville would later call it "pretty cool."

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