
Black Sky
2004-10-03 · Runtime unavailable · Not rated
The remarkable story of Burt Rutan and SpaceShipOne. Only three of the most powerful governments in the world have achieved what they set out to do from a garage in the Mojave desert: to put a man in space.
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