Peter Siebold

Peter Siebold is an American test pilot and is a member of the pilot team of SpaceShipOne.

The experimental rocket plane was developed by Scaled Composites. On April 8, 2004, he drove the second test flight, called 13P, which reached a speed of Mach 1.6 and an altitude of 32 kilometers.

Siebold has held as an aeronautical engineer an academic degree of the California Polytechnic University. Since 1996 he is a design engineer at Scales Composites, in TierOne project he was responsible for the simulator, the navigation project and for systems of ground control.

As one of four skilled pilots for SpaceShipOne, he was a candidate for the second prize for winning the flight Ansari X-Prize. Scaled Composites, however, has this done successfully with Brian Binnie on 4 October 2004 and thus won the prize money of 10 million U.S. dollars.

For the testing of SpaceShipOne, he was awarded his colleagues Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie Iven C. Kincheloe 2004 with the award for outstanding performance during flight testing. In 2009 he again received the Iven C. Kincheloe Award for the testing of White Knight Two.