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Ansari X-Prize Launch Live Thread (Update: LANDING SUCCESSFUL!)
09/29/04

Posted on 09/28/2004 6:36:19 PM PDT by KevinDavis

This is going to be a live thread for tomorrows launch of Spaceship one...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: space; xprize
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To: Brett66; All

I'm shocked, CNN usually does a better job when it comes to space.


101 posted on 09/29/2004 7:06:32 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: All

Take off coming up...

Check here for live updates: http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/xprize_full_coverage.html


102 posted on 09/29/2004 7:06:36 AM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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To: KevinDavis
If they go fast enough, and go back in time, and land before the flight started, is that a moral equivalent to a Kerry flipflop?
103 posted on 09/29/2004 7:07:06 AM PDT by TomGuy (His VN crumbling, he says 'move on'. So now, John Kerry is running on Bob KerrEy's Senate record.)
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To: TomGuy

I think so...


104 posted on 09/29/2004 7:08:01 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: KevinDavis

MSNBC having fairly decent coverage.


105 posted on 09/29/2004 7:08:36 AM PDT by TomGuy (His VN crumbling, he says 'move on'. So now, John Kerry is running on Bob KerrEy's Senate record.)
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To: TomGuy

NASA channel has it live. Streaming online is about 30sec. delay.


106 posted on 09/29/2004 7:10:08 AM PDT by DonnerT (Let Unilateralirality Reign!)
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To: sonofatpatcher2
10:10 a.m. ET: NASA Adminitrator Sean O'Keefe is in the audience at Mojave.

Cool! Maybe he'll learn a few things.

107 posted on 09/29/2004 7:11:19 AM PDT by alnitak ("That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver" - Foghorn Leghorn)
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To: FesterUSMC

Here we go!!


108 posted on 09/29/2004 7:11:20 AM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: KevinDavis

Starting take off down runway.


109 posted on 09/29/2004 7:11:35 AM PDT by TomGuy (His VN crumbling, he says 'move on'. So now, John Kerry is running on Bob KerrEy's Senate record.)
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Wheels up!


110 posted on 09/29/2004 7:11:56 AM PDT by Brett66 (Dan Rather, the most busted man in America.)
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To: KevinDavis

Airborne on MSNBC.

Slight delay on webfeeds.


111 posted on 09/29/2004 7:12:00 AM PDT by TomGuy (His VN crumbling, he says 'move on'. So now, John Kerry is running on Bob KerrEy's Senate record.)
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To: Brett66

It looks like it doesn't need that much forward velocity to take off. Cool!


112 posted on 09/29/2004 7:12:49 AM PDT by Pyro7480 (Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
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To: KevinDavis

113 posted on 09/29/2004 7:13:38 AM PDT by TomGuy (His VN crumbling, he says 'move on'. So now, John Kerry is running on Bob KerrEy's Senate record.)
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To: TomGuy; All

Nice picture....


114 posted on 09/29/2004 7:14:24 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: All

FOX news said they have a special camera they purchased just for events like this. They should be able to see the separation as it occurs.


115 posted on 09/29/2004 7:14:53 AM PDT by Brett66 (Dan Rather, the most busted man in America.)
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To: KevinDavis

Separation about 1 hour from now: 8:15 PDT, 11:15 EDT


116 posted on 09/29/2004 7:18:02 AM PDT by TomGuy (His VN crumbling, he says 'move on'. So now, John Kerry is running on Bob KerrEy's Senate record.)
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To: Brett66

Idiot reporter on Fox just said weightlessness begins at 200k feet. Guess he has no concept of what causes weightlessness in space and that falling is what causes it...not distance from the earth (at least this close in).


117 posted on 09/29/2004 7:18:41 AM PDT by NELSON111
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To: Brett66

If you have Sex in outerspace is it outer course. then you are a member of the 60 mile high club?


118 posted on 09/29/2004 7:20:10 AM PDT by al baby (she stuned my little beeber)
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To: NELSON111
Guess he has no concept of what causes weightlessness in space and that falling is what causes it

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying.

The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
119 posted on 09/29/2004 7:22:43 AM PDT by Mike Fieschko ("How dare you question my [^.*$]. Did you know I served in the Clone Wars?")
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To: KevinDavis
Scanner audio at http://hidesertscanner.qc1.net:8018/listen.pls
120 posted on 09/29/2004 7:22:44 AM PDT by lainie
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