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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: lainie
less than 4 minutes to landing....
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posted on
09/29/2004 8:30:44 AM PDT
by
sonofatpatcher2
(Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
To: CaptRon
Sometimes it helps to remember the flights when they actually took place. lol
282
posted on
09/29/2004 8:31:01 AM PDT
by
Mike Fieschko
("How dare you question my [^.*$]. Did you know I served in the Clone Wars?")
To: KevinDavis
To: JimNtexas
You can see one of the chase planes in the streaming video.
284
posted on
09/29/2004 8:31:19 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
(Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
To: B4Ranch
I love the scanner 'When you get this low to the ground it flies really well..'
To: gopwinsin04
Cool psychedelic moir pattern on the web feed for a bit there.
286
posted on
09/29/2004 8:31:24 AM PDT
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: sonofatpatcher2
descending through 12,000, 130 knots, Mike sounds very collected
To: Odyssey-x
In excess of 30 rolls.....
Damn he had to do a Victory roll just to get his retinas uncrossed !!!!!
288
posted on
09/29/2004 8:31:50 AM PDT
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: avg_freeper
I can see the chase plane now on camera..
To: Constantine XIII
Neil Armstrong got put into the spin cycle in an X-15 once. He had a tough little interlude as command pilot aboard Gemini 8 as well (uncontrolled roll and spin while docked with the Agena).
290
posted on
09/29/2004 8:32:04 AM PDT
by
asgardshill
(Got a lump of coal? Tell Mary Mapes to 'shove it' - in 2 weeks you'll have a diamond.)
To: Robe
The mainline AF jet trainer years ago, the T-38, rolled at 720° per second...
291
posted on
09/29/2004 8:32:30 AM PDT
by
AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
To: norton
Didn't Yeager get all twisted up in NF-104 ?
Don't know (that was a little before my time), but I did read a bio of him when I was a kid. Think it was titled The Fastest Man Alive.
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posted on
09/29/2004 8:32:34 AM PDT
by
Mike Fieschko
("How dare you question my [^.*$]. Did you know I served in the Clone Wars?")
To: Robe
8,000 Mike reports "out of high key"
Fox News guy keeps calling it Space Craft One..sheesh get it right for cryin out loud. It's not that hard.
294
posted on
09/29/2004 8:33:19 AM PDT
by
lainie
To: asgardshill
The Dow came back up 10 points! LOL
295
posted on
09/29/2004 8:33:45 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(´´Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are our teeth for Liberty)
To: asgardshill
296
posted on
09/29/2004 8:34:06 AM PDT
by
sonofatpatcher2
(Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
To: lainie
Mike reports "Runway in sight"
To: Mike Fieschko
298
posted on
09/29/2004 8:34:08 AM PDT
by
Mike Fieschko
("How dare you question my [^.*$]. Did you know I served in the Clone Wars?")
To: lainie
You can really hear the difference in Mike's voice now. Sounds very relaxed and comfortable.
299
posted on
09/29/2004 8:34:09 AM PDT
by
Stars N Stripes
(God Bless America and God Bless GWB !!)
scanner: "yee haaw!"
3 -2 -1 perfect landing
300
posted on
09/29/2004 8:34:15 AM PDT
by
lainie
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