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Civilian Space Flight a Reality! SPACE SHIP ONE - HE MADE IT! (sub orbital)
Yah-poo ^
| 6/21/2004
| JOHN ANTCZAK
Posted on 06/21/2004 8:22:15 AM PDT by Dallas59
A rocket plane soared toward space Monday in a historic attempt to make the first privately financed flight into space. SpaceShipOne pilot Mike Melvill ignited a rocket motor for an 80-second burn intended to boost the craft to an altitude of 62 miles above the Mojave Desert. The craft was designed to make an unpowered landing back at Mojave Airport after an approximately 30-minute glide.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: space; spacecivilian; spaceshipone
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Whoo Hoo!
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:22:17 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: Dallas59
He's back down. On Fox News. Way to Go!
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:23:09 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: Dallas59
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:23:16 AM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I have No Blog to speak of)
To: Dallas59
I thought Barrister, the first man to run a mile under five minutes this morning. Just what this country needs at this time. A man, a crew who achieved the impossible and something that embodies the spirit of USA.
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:24:52 AM PDT
by
cyborg
To: Tanniker Smith
Must be a big cockpit to get a pair the size this man must have to fly into sub orbital space in what is essentially a homemade vehicle.
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:25:47 AM PDT
by
IamConservative
(A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.)
To: Dallas59
Glad he's safe. I had some concerns this morning when I saw the ship.
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:25:52 AM PDT
by
Bikers4Bush
(Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
To: Dallas59
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:27:09 AM PDT
by
cabrera
To: Dallas59
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:27:43 AM PDT
by
milestogo
To: IamConservative
My guess is that he considered this could have been his last go around. He's a real space cowboy!
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:28:00 AM PDT
by
cyborg
To: cyborg
something that embodies the spirit of USA. Yeah. I have been lurking this morning and this was the first thread that I smiled about.
To: cabrera
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:29:47 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
(Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
To: Dallas59
Can anyone say Kitty Hawk? Give it 20-30 years and we'll be able to travel anywhere on the planet in 30 min.
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:30:09 AM PDT
by
traviskicks
(The private sector ALWAYS outperforms government)
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:31:11 AM PDT
by
cabrera
To: CindyDawg
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:31:42 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(We do only what we are meant to do)
To: IamConservative
Must be a big cockpit to get a pair the size this man must have to fly into sub orbital space in what is essentially a homemade vehicle. Probably not as big as the military guys who did the same thing back in the 1950s in a government owned vehicle build by the lowest price contractor. ~:))
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:32:19 AM PDT
by
Ditto
( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
To: Dallas59
how does this flight compare to the old X-15 flights? higher or lower, faster or slower?
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:34:03 AM PDT
by
ko_kyi
To: Dallas59
To: CindyDawg
Yeah and we need something to smile about these days.
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:36:32 AM PDT
by
cyborg
To: Dallas59
Fox's coverage of this event was pathetic.
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:37:39 AM PDT
by
latrans
To: ko_kyi
From 1959 through 1968 a decade-long research program employed the North American Aviation X-15 to explore hypersonic flight and technologies needed for space flight. The X-15's pioneering flights set records that still have not been broken four decades later, including a top speed of Mach 6.7 (4,520 mph) and a peak altitude of 354,200 feet (67 miles). While doing this it gathered engineering and scientific data needed to develop new families of aircraft and spacecraft, including the Space Shuttle.
Space Ship One flew 62 miles. The next will try to reach 158 miles...I may be wrong.
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posted on
06/21/2004 8:38:13 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
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