April 7th, 2004
First License for Manned Rocket Flight
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced it has issued the worlds first license for a sub-orbital manned rocket flight.
The license was issued April 1 by the Federal Aviation Administrations Office of Commercial Space Transportation to Scaled Composites of Mojave, Calif., headed by aviation record-holder Burt Rutan, for a sequence of sub-orbital [...]