Black Sky: The Race for Space (2005)

Original title

Black Sky

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a small team that builds a rocketplane to win a prize for reaching space. It shows how they built the craft and the problems they solved during test flights.

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What happens

Black Sky: The Race For Space is a 2004 Discovery Channel documentary about Space Ship One, and how a small team backed by Paul Allen achieved human suborbital spaceflight and won the Ansari X Prize. It contains insights about how the rocketplane was built, the challenges they faced when they flew it, the vision of Burt Rutan about the future of this technology (tier two and three), and his thoughts about NASA and government. It won a Peabody Award in 2004. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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