English: 'World's First Five Spaceplanes'. The world's first five spaceplanes flew within the first 50 years of human spaceflight. North American X-15 reached space in 1962/1963 (USAF/FAI Kármán line classifications). Space Shuttle and Buran reached space in 1980s. SpaceShipOne in 2004, piloted by world's first commercial astronaut. Boeing X-37 flew in 2010. Both X-15 and SpaceShipOne ascend horizontally from a mother ship. Both Buran and X-37 spaceflights were uncrewed. X-37 launches atop Centaur and Atlas V rockets.

This image was personally created by myself. Kelvin Case publicly licenses all personally created portions of this image under the Creative Commons license. Some portions of this image are

. Additionally, other image sources were reviewed during the creation of this image. Reference images reviewed in addition to those images listed above are as follows:

• North American X-15 images: In addition to the U.S. government sources listed above, the X-15 images are additionally derived from File:X-15 bewerkt.jpg.
• Space Shuttle image is a derivative work of NASA, specifically from the image listed above.
• Buran image: This Buran image incorporates Wikipedia National flag image File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg. In addition to the derivative U.S. government sources listed above, this image was entirely and personally created by myself. While drawing the image, I reviewed additional reference images to guide the process, specifically those Buran images posted at http://www.buran.ru/htm/rocket.htm. No copying was done: Those elements of this Buran image that are in addition to the incorporated U.S. government sources (listed above) and national flag image are entirely my own, sole, personal artistic work.
• SpaceShipOne image: The SpaceShipOne images are a derivative work of those U.S. government sources listed above, specifically the NASA image posted at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/SpaceShipOne.html. In addition, while drawing the image, I reviewed additional reference images to guide the process, specifically those SpaceShipOne images posted at http://richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/SpaceShipOne2004/. Wikipedia's SpaceShipOne and Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum's SpaceShipOne images posted at http://nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal100/ss1.htm also were reviewed. No copying was done: Those elements of this SpaceShipOne image that are in addition to the incorporated U.S. government sources (listed above) are entirely my own, sole, personal artistic work.
• Boeing X-37 image is a derivative work of those Wikipedia US government images listed above. This image was entirely and personally created by myself. While drawing the image, I reviewed additional reference images to guide the process, specifically those X-37 images posted at http://www.space.com/13230-secretive-37b-space-plane-future-astronauts.html. Wikipedia's Boeing X-37, Atlas V and Centaur also were reviewed. No copying was done: Those elements of this X-37 image that are in addition to the incorporated U.S. government sources (listed above) are entirely my own, sole, personal artistic work.