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Mike Melvill, a Common card
Michael Winston Melvill was a South African-born American world-record-breaking pilot and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 54
- DEF
- 44
- Power
- 98
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 14,000
Power 98 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Mike Melvill quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mike Melvill card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was also the pilot on SpaceShipOne's flight 16P, the first competitive flight in the ______ X Prize competition.
Answer
Ansari. He was also the pilot on SpaceShipOne's flight 16P, the first competitive flight in the Ansari X Prize competition. From the Mike Melvill article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first flight past the edge of space, flight 15P on June 21, ____, thus becoming the first commercial astronaut, and the 435th person to go into space.
Answer
2000s. Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first flight past the edge of space, flight 15P on June 21, 2004, thus becoming the first commercial astronaut, and the 435th person to go into space. From the Mike Melvill article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Todd Pletcher. Todd Pletcher 64 · Steffi Jones 61 · William Renshaw 58 · Mike Melvill 54 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first flight past the edge of space, flight 15P on June 21, 2004, thus becoming the first commercial astronaut, and the 435th person to go into space.
- He was also the pilot on SpaceShipOne's flight 16P, the first competitive flight in the Ansari X Prize competition.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mike Melvill article was read about 14,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 54 and blocks with 44: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Mike Melvill
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mike Melvill (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : SS1Group01.jpg derivative work: Craigboy, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
