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SpaceShipOne update

#1 Postby GalvestonDuck » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:13 am

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/SS ... 40621.html

11:02 a.m. ET: Mike Melvill and his SpaceShipOne have made it into space. Everything looks good, mission official said, and the craft is now gliding back toward a landing at the Mojave Airport, where it took off earlier this morning. "I got goose bumps when I saw contrails," Greg Klerkx, author of Lost in Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age. "I never thought I'd see this moment, but here it is."
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#2 Postby mf_dolphin » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:25 am

The dawn of a new era! Now the question is how long before they start offering rides to the paying public? :-)
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#3 Postby GalvestonDuck » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:29 am

Update: SS1 made a safe landing in the Mojave Desert in CA.

Very cool!
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#4 Postby Brent » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:37 am

This is just too cool. 8-) :)
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#5 Postby mf_dolphin » Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:16 am

Still waiting on the official confirmation of the height achieved. :-) This should go down as a major milestone in aviation history. :-)
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