SpaceShipOne

SpaceShipOne is the name of the first private venture craft to leave earth and enter space. Up to now, only governments have "paid the freight" to get things up into space. A link is provided to get you off the ground.

SpaceShipOne. It won the Ansari X prize for being the first to go sub-orbital.

The manned airplane that has flown the highest is the Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne flown by Brian Binnie. The airplane was launched from another aircraft on October 4, 2004 and reached a height of 367,441 feet.

Virgin Galactic Enterprises and Scaled Composites launched the SpaceShipOne from the New Mexico Spaceport.

NASA launches their rockets from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and XCOR launches their Falcon rockets from an island in the Pacific. But also many other places.