Black Sky: The Race for Space

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Black Sky: The Race for Space
Starring	Burt Rutan, Paul Allen, James Benson
Production company	Vulcan Productions
Distributed by	Discovery Channel
Release date	October 3, 2004 (2004-10-03)
Running time	143
Country	United States
Language	English

Black Sky: The Race For Space is a 2004 Discovery Channel documentary about Space Ship One, and how a small team backed by Paul Allen achieved human suborbital spaceflight and won the Ansari X Prize. It contains insights about how the rocketplane was built, the challenges they faced when they flew it, the vision of Burt Rutan about the future of this technology (tier two and three), and his thoughts about NASA and government.^[1] It won a Peabody Award in 2004.^[2]