<p>SpaceShipOne, a suborbital spaceplane that achieved the first manned private spaceflight on October 4, 2004. It won the $10 million Ansari X Prize for doing so.  Mojave Aerospace Ventures, a joint venture between Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and Scaled Composites (a company owned by Gossamer Albatross and Gossamer Condor pilot Burt Rutan), built it.  Allen provided $25 million of his own money to do the research, development, and construction.
</p><p>SpaceShipOne was retired immediately after its historic flight.  It was donated to the Smithsonian and unveiled on October 5, 2005.
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On display in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
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