The SpaceShipOne has reached space through the support of a carrier aircraft, the White Knight. The aircraft lifts SpaceShipOne from the runway. Then after an hour of climbing to roughly 50,000 feet elevation, the White Knight releases the spaceship into a glide. The spaceship pilot fires his rocket machine for about 80 seconds, reaching Mach 3 in a vertical rise. During the pull-up and rise, the pilot encounters G-forces three to four times that of being on the ground.

Dimensions: 20"L x 6"W x 4.84"H