World Space Week: The only two South Africans who have ever been to space

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FILE. Pilot Mike Melvill waves as he sits atop SpaceShipOne as it is towed following his historic flight out of the Earth's atmosphere which marks the world's first privately funded rocket plane flight into space, 21 June 2004 at the Mojave Airport in California. SpaceShipOne, designed by aerospace legend Burt Rutan and funded by billionaire Paul G. Allen, reached a height of 62 miles (100km)…

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