October 30, 2009 — Lunar Lander Challenge flight by Masten Space Systems wins first place for Level 2 of the NASA competition January 16, 2010 — AOPA president Craig Fuller came to speak at MHV. May 26, 2010 — Masten Space Systems completes the first ever flight of a vertical take-off, vertical landing (VTVL) vehicle with successfully re-light the rocket engine. October 10, 2010 — First flight of Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo February 9, 2011 — First flight of Scaled Composites Firebird March 30, 2011 — First flight of Scaled Composites BiPod January 20, 2012 — Stratolaunch Systems breaks ground for production facility and hangar. November 5, 2012 — First flight of Wasabi Air Racing Siren April 20, 2013 — Mojave Experimental Fly-in April 29, 2013 — First rocket powered flight of Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo April 16–20, 2014 — Mojave Experimental Fly-in and Week of Record Setting July 28, 2014 — Mo'Venture Team Flies Non-Stop to EAA Airventure 2014 in Oshkosh Wisconsin October 31, 2014 — The VSS Enterprise, a Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo class experimental test flight vehicle, crashes during a test flight, killing one of the pilots and injuring the other. May 3, 2017 - First suborbital test flight of prototype rocket Vector-R 0.1 by Vector Space Systems December 13, 2018 - The VSS Unity, a Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo class vehicle, reaches suborbital spaceflight for the first time. April 13, 2019 - First flight of Stratolaunch Systems aircraft, the world's largest aircraft by wingspan. May 25, 2020 - First launch of Launcher One by Virgin Orbit (sibling company of Virgin Galactic), which failed shortly after ignition January 17, 2021 - First successful Launcher One mission, ELaNa XX Civilian Aerospace Test Center test programs Boeing X-37 Eclipse 500 (crosswind landing data) General Electric CF34 General Electric GE90 Lockheed CATBird (post modification and systems flight test) Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor (crosswind landing data) Lockheed Martin VH-71 Kestrel McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30 Air Tractor 401 modified with an Orenda Aerospace OE600 engine (certification flight test program) Rotary Rocket Scaled Composites White Knight and SpaceShipOne Sino Swearingen SJ30-2 (envelope expansion, flutter, stability and control, crosswind takeoffs and landings) Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer Adaptive Compliant Wing developed by FlexSys Inc flight tested on White Knight World records set FAI Class C-1, unlimited weight Group 1, internal combustion engine Speed over a straight 15/25 km course: P-51 Mustang N5410V piloted by Frank Taylor, 832.12 km/h, July 30, 1983.