Just as long they launch before the Bears game on Sunday, I say go for it..
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; sionnsar; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; ...
2 posted on
09/29/2004 5:56:49 PM PDT by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: KevinDavis
"the first team that can send a three-person craft 62 miles"
Do the three people have to be in the craft, or does it just have to be big enough to fit three people?
To: KevinDavis
One day they are going to take off in that thing at Mojave and land in Edwards...and China Lake...and Tehachapi.
To: KevinDavis
The pilot got too carried away from being excited, so it rolled.
5 posted on
09/29/2004 6:01:15 PM PDT by
Ptarmigan
(Proud rabbit hater and killer)
To: KevinDavis
Just as long they launch before the Bears game on Sunday, I say go for it.. With my luck they'll launch Monday when I will be on an airplane, incommunicado.
7 posted on
09/29/2004 6:03:00 PM PDT by
sionnsar
(Cbs: Tune in. Turn on. Ignore doubt | Iran Azadi | Traditional Anglicans: trad-anglican.faithweb.com)
To: KevinDavis
Any roll that YOU CANT STOP is out of control. I'm glad they succeeded, but there is no need for that kind of BS from them. That sucker was rolling 720dps. Most fighters wont roll that fast if you wanted them to.
8 posted on
09/29/2004 6:05:03 PM PDT by
Pukin Dog
(Sans Reproache)
To: KevinDavis
"The frightening spin of SpaceShipOne during its trip into space Wednesday was caused by a known deficiency and at no time led to an out-of-control situation"
That is not what it looked like. It looked like it was on the verge of spinning out of control.
15 posted on
09/29/2004 6:14:28 PM PDT by
Max Combined
(I gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine...)
To: KevinDavis; Larry Lucido; BurbankKarl; Ptarmigan; sionnsar; Pukin Dog; Jambe; eno_; ...
I watched the flight and landing live on Fox today.
It was a clear blow to crazy idea of "privatization." You have these guys that spent less than 30 million on an brilliantly designed craft that went to space and back safely. They skipped right over many important steps.
They didn't spend hundreds of millions of dollars researching the feasibility of their mission. Second, their craft is obviously well below the 10 billion dollar mark and can't be considered serious. Third, they're severely understaffed. They need to step aside and let NASA handle this.
18 posted on
09/29/2004 6:22:27 PM PDT by
Jaysun
(It's getting hard to see through all of the "white out" on my screen.)
To: KevinDavis
Burt Rutan said in the post-flight press confernce that he was calling for an abort but Melvill decided to keep going.
21 posted on
09/29/2004 6:25:45 PM PDT by
Cooter
To: KevinDavis
If space flight had been privatized 40 years ago, I'm fairly certain that I'd have a summer home on Venus by now.
In 20 years, I hope NASA is folded into the FAA.
24 posted on
09/29/2004 6:34:44 PM PDT by
Wormwood
(Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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