Beyond Blue Sky: The Untold Story of the First Private Astronauts 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 ended in aerospace immortality for the corner-cutting geniuses, who operated on a razor’s edge to prove to the world that a low-cost, privately financed, manned space program was possible.

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

Brought to life by an Emmy-nominated crew, we hope to honor the entire SpaceShipOne team and encourage viewers to look up, ask big questions, and pursue careers in STEM in order to chase the answers.

Per aspera ad astra.