Private manned space plane unveiled
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"Aircraft designer Burt Rutan unveiled Friday a fully-built launch system that, if flights outside the atmosphere prove successful, would be the first private manned space program. Both the spacecraft, called SpaceShipOne, and its launch platform, a futuristic jet known as the White Knight, were developed and built in secret and have already begun tests at lower altitudes." http://www.msnbc.com/news/902224.asp?0ql=c9p[^]
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"Aircraft designer Burt Rutan unveiled Friday a fully-built launch system that, if flights outside the atmosphere prove successful, would be the first private manned space program. Both the spacecraft, called SpaceShipOne, and its launch platform, a futuristic jet known as the White Knight, were developed and built in secret and have already begun tests at lower altitudes." http://www.msnbc.com/news/902224.asp?0ql=c9p[^]
Awesome!! It sounds very plausable compared to some of the others that has been promoted. I can't really see how that re-entry idea works, but I hope it does, as that has remained one of the bottlenecks of current inner-space missions. Regardz Colin J Davies
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"Aircraft designer Burt Rutan unveiled Friday a fully-built launch system that, if flights outside the atmosphere prove successful, would be the first private manned space program. Both the spacecraft, called SpaceShipOne, and its launch platform, a futuristic jet known as the White Knight, were developed and built in secret and have already begun tests at lower altitudes." http://www.msnbc.com/news/902224.asp?0ql=c9p[^]
If anybody can make this work, it's Rutan. He's a very sharp guy.
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"Aircraft designer Burt Rutan unveiled Friday a fully-built launch system that, if flights outside the atmosphere prove successful, would be the first private manned space program. Both the spacecraft, called SpaceShipOne, and its launch platform, a futuristic jet known as the White Knight, were developed and built in secret and have already begun tests at lower altitudes." http://www.msnbc.com/news/902224.asp?0ql=c9p[^]
Nice idea, going for a slow reentry. This sorts lots of problems and the olny real problem is that reeentry time is longer. I hope it works out :) Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D