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Beyond Blue Sky is a 93-minute documentary exploring how from 2001 to 2004, a small team of engineers in California’s Mojave Desert built a simulator, a mothership and a rocket-propelled glider that test pilots Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie flew to space three times. It was a supersonic physics experiment that thankfully ended in aerospace immortality for the corner-cutting geniuses, who operated on a razor’s edge to prove to the world it was possible to have a low-cost, privately financed, manned space program.

This documentary features death-defying test flight footage and a stranger-than fiction, thought-provoking, untold, true story behind the birth of private spaceflight as told by people who lived it:  Burt Rutan, Brian Binnie, Mike Melvill, Doug Shane, Matt Stinemetze, Sally Melvill and Valerie Binnie.

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NASA, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, Mojave Air & Space Port, National Test Pilot School, Burt Rutan, Brian Binnie, Mike Melvill, Valerie Binnie, Sally Melvill, Doug Shane and Matt Stinemetze.

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