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1 posted on 09/12/2007 3:31:10 PM PDT by Freeport
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To: KevinDavis

Space ping


2 posted on 09/12/2007 3:38:53 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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To: Freeport

The glider looks like those plastic bottle rockets I had as a kid, you know, where you fill the rocket with water then use a pump to fill it with air causing it to launch.


3 posted on 09/12/2007 4:20:04 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
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To: Freeport

BMFLR


4 posted on 09/12/2007 4:23:09 PM PDT by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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5 posted on 09/12/2007 6:48:49 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Mitt Romney 08)
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To: Freeport
I find it immensely gratifying that the first commercial passenger spaceship looks almost exactly the way commercial passenger spaceships were expected to look back in the 1940s and 1950s: a cigar shape with portholes and wings. That's the way a spaceship is supposed to look.

Somewhere, Chesley Bonestell is smiling...

7 posted on 09/12/2007 8:25:11 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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New design, more passengers, still suborbital, and a toy for “fool and his money” crowd.


9 posted on 09/14/2007 7:46:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Wednesday, September 12, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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