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To: Young Werther
Odd lookin' bird(s).
To: Young Werther
Reentry configuration:
To: Brett66
Ping for your space list
To: Young Werther
The thing is funny looking,but an American private enterprise getting into the space travel bussiness is fantastic!
7 posted on
09/02/2003 4:20:21 PM PDT by
Frankss
To: Young Werther; *Space; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; discostu; The_Victor; ...
Nice, I can't wait to see this thing actually reach space.
8 posted on
09/02/2003 4:21:04 PM PDT by
Brett66
To: Normal4me; RightWhale; demlosers; Prof Engineer; BlazingArizona; ThreePuttinDude; Brett66; ...
Go Burt Go!
Space Ping! This is the space ping list! Let me know if you want on or off this list!
11 posted on
09/02/2003 4:40:14 PM PDT by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: Young Werther
Although space flight seems routine to us now, it wasn't so long ago that it was the realm of the unknown and still quite dangerous. I place the test pilot, Mike Melvill, in the same category as Yeager, Shepard, Gagarin, Bob Hoover, and the rest of the Right Stuff crowd. Big brass set of cojones!
16 posted on
09/02/2003 4:55:24 PM PDT by
WestPacSailor
(Sorry folks, this tagline's closed. The moose out front should of told you.)
To: Young Werther
I love this. It's great to see private enterprise unleashed on space exploration...it will fill in the gaps that NASA cannot or will not, and is much more agile technically (somebody like Rutan can bring things from design to realspace a lot faster than a bloated government agency like NASA).
}:-)4
19 posted on
09/02/2003 4:59:01 PM PDT by
Moose4
(It's rusting, it's paid for and it's bigger than your car. Don't get in my truck's way.)
To: Young Werther
This Mike Melvill character has some large stainless ones... good LORD - freefalling in an unpowered and essentially untested prototype vehicle from a drop altitude of nine miles...
Huge, shiny, chrome-plated ones.
36 posted on
09/03/2003 12:22:42 AM PDT by
King Prout
(people hear and do not listen, see and do not observe, speak without thought, post and not edit)
To: Young Werther
What a piece of poppycock! Man will never fly! Er, I mean, get a horse!
54 posted on
09/03/2003 6:06:40 PM PDT by
JoeSchem
To: Young Werther
The suits at NASA would never even _dream_ of such a spacecraft. They would spend years and billions to "prove" it couldn't be done, meanwhile lauching a shuttle with pieces shedding off.
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