abstract:William Brian Binnie (born 1953) is a former United States Navy officer and is one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites.
You have to fast-forward all the way to October 4th, 2004, the moment that pilot BrianBinnie crested at an altitude of 112km in SpaceShipOne, to find a similarly important moment in the history of private space flight.