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First Private Spaceflight Set to Launch
foxnews ^
| 6-21-04
| ap
Posted on 06/21/2004 4:18:43 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
MOJAVE, Calif. — Mike Melvill (search) is hoping to boldly go where no private enterprise has gone before.
Melvill was to be in the cockpit Monday of a privately developed rocket plane that seeks to soar into suborbital space, making history as the first non-governmental manned spaceflight.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: privatespaceflight; rutan; spaceshipone; xprize
No info on the launch time. Do any of you Mojave FReepers know any details, and whether the launch will be televised?
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posted on
06/21/2004 4:18:43 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
To: ovrtaxt
I hope it works! Free enterprise at work. I will have the pop-corn ready at 09:30..
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posted on
06/21/2004 4:25:05 AM PDT
by
devane617
To: ovrtaxt
I found a better article
here. A bit more informative
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posted on
06/21/2004 4:26:17 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(Stop the war. ********** NUKE EM NOW !)
To: devane617
I will have the pop-corn ready at 09:30.. Finally,......'2002 a Space Oddessy',....is realized!
Invest Now......buy at 2500
:-)
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posted on
06/21/2004 5:15:45 AM PDT
by
maestro
To: ovrtaxt
Have a stick of Beemans ready, now go punch some holes in that sky!
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posted on
06/21/2004 6:08:22 AM PDT
by
Khurkris
(Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past, It whispers no this will be the last)
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