It didn't take billions of dollars to accomplish and the man at
the controls started out as a homebuilt pilot. In the end, Scaled
Composites' honcho Burt Rutan and SpaceShipOne pilot Mike Melvill
did what NASA and Alan Shephard did more than 40 years ago. They
sent a small ship -- albeit briefly -- into space.
Encircled in purple stratospheric haze, Saturn's largest moon,
Titan, appears as a softly glowing sphere in this colorized image
taken on July 3, 2004, one day after Cassini's first flyby of that
moon. Titan has a dense atmosphere composed primarily of nitrogen
with a few percent methane. The atmosphere can undergo
photochemical processes to form hazes.
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