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Mike Melvill (Michael Winston Melvill) was born on 30 November, 1940 in Johannesburg, South Africa, is an American test pilot and astronaut (born 1940). Discover Mike Melvill's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

Popular As Michael Winston Melvill
Occupation Test pilot
Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 30 November 1940
Birthday 30 November
Birthplace Johannesburg, South Africa
Nationality South Africa

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1940

Michael Winston Melvill (born November 30, 1940, in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a world-record-breaking pilot and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites.

1978

In 1978, Melvill met aerospace designer and Scaled Composites founder Burt Rutan when he flew to California to show Rutan the VariViggen he had built at his home.

Rutan then hired him on the spot.

1982

In 1982, he was named Rutan's lead test pilot.

1997

In 1997, Melvill and Dick Rutan, Burt's brother, flew two Long-Eze aircraft that they built side-by-side around the world.

This "around the world in 80 nights" flight was called The Spirit of EAA Friendship World Tour, and some legs of it lasted for over 14 hours.

1999

He was awarded the Iven C. Kincheloe Award in 1999 for high altitude, developmental flight-testing of the model 281 Proteus aircraft.

2004

Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first flight past the edge of space, flight 15P on June 21, 2004, thus becoming the first commercial astronaut, and the 435th person to go into space.

He was also the pilot on SpaceShipOne's flight 16P, the first competitive flight in the Ansari X Prize competition.

His famous 2004 flights in SpaceshipOne earned him and the entire project team the Ansari X Prize of $10 million and helped spur the beginning of the global private space race.

Later in his career, he became Vice President/General Manager at Scaled Composites.

Mike Melvill holds FAA Commercial certificate, ASEL, AMEL, instrument airplane, rotorcraft-helicopter, glider and now astronaut.

Through SpaceShipOne flight 15P in 2004, he is known as the first privately funded human spaceflight mission pilot to reach space.

2020

As of January, 2020, Melvill is the sole or joint holder of ten FAI aviation world records in various categories.

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