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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: Ashamed Canadian

Didn't Mo tie up his Donkey and float up to heaven at the spot the Al Aqsa Mosque defiles the Temple Mount....or did they just make that up?


501 posted on 09/29/2004 11:32:47 AM PDT by Dead Dog
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To: Centurion2000

Second qualifier flight certainly.

(Rutan has gotten it to on several previous test flights, including one to "legal" space altitudes....)


502 posted on 09/29/2004 11:33:37 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Dominick

Not sure about parabolic, but in a central gravitation field it is elliptical or hyperbolic. You can tell the difference by whether your spaceship comes back or not if it doesn't run into something.


503 posted on 09/29/2004 12:14:36 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: AFPhys
The ship unexpectedly rolled more than two dozen times before steadying. "I was worried about that because that's not the way it was supposed to be," Dick Rutan said.

Ya think?

504 posted on 09/29/2004 12:48:40 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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Anything new on Toutatis? That was supposed to fly by during the Rutan flight and pack enough energy to vaporize, say, France.


505 posted on 09/29/2004 1:25:38 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: Dead Dog
>>>>Didn't Mo tie up his Donkey and float up to heaven at the spot the Al Aqsa Mosque defiles the Temple Mount....or did they just make that up?<<<<

"third holiest place" is fraudulent claim, they made it up recently. When Jordanis were running the place, there was a garbage dump across the street from Al Aqsa.

506 posted on 09/29/2004 1:28:32 PM PDT by DTA (Proud Pajamista)
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To: RightWhale
Coming late to the thread here, but Melville said on Fox that "he may have hit the rudder pedal inadvertently".

The talking heads said the craft "was spinning out of control". Sheesh...

507 posted on 09/29/2004 2:27:13 PM PDT by snopercod ("I'm so proud to be a part of this great mass deception" --Frank Zappa)
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To: snopercod

Seems he got about 25 snap rolls at the end of powered flight. Do not try this in your SUV.


508 posted on 09/29/2004 2:30:36 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: RightWhale

Well, not snap rolls. More like aileron rolls.


509 posted on 09/29/2004 2:31:58 PM PDT by snopercod ("I'm so proud to be a part of this great mass deception" --Frank Zappa)
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To: Eaker

Ping to watch at home.


510 posted on 09/29/2004 2:32:48 PM PDT by Eaker ("He's the kind of guy who would fight a rattlesnake and give the snake a two-bite head start.")
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To: snopercod

The this is the is the second time it a roll the the ship rolled ant the time of the rocket firing ... this was one of the reason the has been the delay from the first flight in to space to this Xprize try they were going to try and fix this issue


511 posted on 09/29/2004 2:34:05 PM PDT by tophat9000 ( “Old Yeller” Democrats is a Yellow Dog that has become Crazy & Rabid)
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To: KevinDavis; ValerieUSA; blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach

"Bigelow this week announced a new prize of $50 million for the first private group that can build an orbiting, passenger-carrying spacecraft."

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/xprize_success_040929.html

That's it, I'm quittin' my job and heading for the workshop... ;')


512 posted on 09/29/2004 2:43:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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To: KevinDavis

"Bigelow told Aviation Week that not only would America's Space Prize winners secure the $50 million purse, half of which he's putting up himself, but they'd also snag options to service inflatable space habitats under development by Bigelow Aerospace."

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/bigelow_spaceprize_040927.html


513 posted on 09/29/2004 2:49:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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"The Virgin transport, entertainment and communications group has signed an agreement with pioneering aviation designer Burt Rutan to build an aircraft based on Rutan's SpaceShipOne vessel, Branson said."

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/virgin_space_040927.html

A great (and obvious) choice.


514 posted on 09/29/2004 2:50:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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To: tophat9000
The this is the is the second time it a roll the the ship rolled ant the time of the rocket firing

Mr. Babelfish, I presume...?

515 posted on 09/29/2004 6:36:08 PM PDT by freebilly (Elect the Vietnam Vet in '04-- Vote Jane Fonda....)
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To: Odyssey-x
Lookie here! spaceshipone.airshowjournal


516 posted on 09/30/2004 5:57:18 AM PDT by B4Ranch (´´Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are our teeth for Liberty)
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