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===Design goal=== The '''Scaled Composites Model 316''',<ref name="SpaceNewsPreludeToHistory">{{cite news|last1=Foust|first1=Jeff|author-link1=Jeff Foust|title=Prelude to history?|url=http://www.thespacereview.com/article/166/1|access-date=21 December 2015|work=[[The Space Review]]|publisher=[[SpaceNews]]|date=21 June 2004}}</ref> known as '''SpaceShipOne''', was a [[spaceplane]] designed to: * Carry three humans (one of them a [[pilot (spaceflight)|pilot]]) in a sea-level pressurized cabin. * Be propelled by [[rocket]] from an altitude of {{convert|15|km|abbr=on}} to in excess of {{convert|100|km|abbr=on}}. * Reenter atmosphere and shed kinetic energy in an [[aerodynamic]]ally stable configuration. * Glide transonically and subsonically. * Land horizontally on a standard [[runway]].
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