Scaled Composites/Mojave Aerospace flew the Tier One SpaceShipOne Flight 17P - X-Prize Flight 2 mission on 4 October 2004, in which Burt Rutan's privately funded SpaceShipOne made its second flight within 2 weeks to an altitude in excess of 100 km (above the Karman Line) to capture the Ansari X Prize for the first civilian spacecraft to do so.

The objectives of the flight were to win the Ansari X-Prize, and break the rocketplane altitude record set by Joe Walker in the X-15 in 1963 (354,200 feet). The Tier One (White Knight/SpaceShipOne) composite aircraft took off at 06:49 PDT. The rocketplane was dropped exactly one hour later at 14.4 km altitude. Pilot Brian Binnie fired the hybrid rocket motor for 83 seconds. The engine cut off with SpaceShipOne at Mach 3.09 (3524 kph) at 65 km altitude. From there it coasted to 111.996 km (367,442 feet, 69.6 miles) altitude. Binnie experienced weightlessness for 3.5 minutes before re-entry began. The spacecraft reached Mach 3.25 during re-entry and a peak deceleration of 5.4 G's at 32 km altitude. Binnie reconfigured the vehicle to a glider at 15.5 km and then made an 18 minute glide to a landing at Mojave airport. SpaceShipOne thereby won the $10 million X-Prize. No anomalies were noted on the flight and SpaceShipOne returned with no maintenance squawks.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/october-4-2004-spaceshipone-wins-10-million-x-prize-1294605/