Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/SpaceShipOne Flight 16P

Another slice of the History of Private Space Travel

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Original – Flight 16P of SpaceShipOne was a spaceflight in the Tier One program that took place on September 29, 2004. It was the first competitive flight in the Ansari X PRIZE competition to demonstrate a non-governmental reusable manned spacecraft, and is hence also referred to as the X1 flight. A serious roll excursion occurred during boost, so the flight did not achieve the expected altitude. However, it exceeded 100 km altitude, making it a successful X PRIZE flight.

Reason

Sharp photo High EV

Articles in which this image appears

Scaled Composites - Ansari X Prize - SpaceShipOne - Spaceplane - Scaled Composites White Knight - SpaceShipOne flight 16P

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Air

Creator

- ℅ ✰WPPilot✰ ^{123.0 unicomm}

• Support as nominator – talk→ WPPilot  04:56, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose sorry, but this image is oversaturated. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 09:28, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose so sorry, but I have to agree with Alchemist-hp the image is over saturated. WordSeventeen (talk) 23:24, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose I really want to like this, but a lot of the plane is out of focus - possibly a different term for the issues mentioned above... gazhiley 18:56, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:28, 25 February 2015 (UTC)