Spaceship One
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... is making the first of 2 flights for the X prize. :-D http://us.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/29/news.space.xprize.dc.reut/index.html[^]
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... is making the first of 2 flights for the X prize. :-D http://us.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/29/news.space.xprize.dc.reut/index.html[^]
Good for them, hope it goes well. Pz
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... is making the first of 2 flights for the X prize. :-D http://us.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/29/news.space.xprize.dc.reut/index.html[^]
Anyone got the £100K[^] ($180K US) Richard Branson wants to take people up in their ship? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
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Anyone got the £100K[^] ($180K US) Richard Branson wants to take people up in their ship? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
I am beginning to spare. I think I'll get that sum of money before 2123.
Fold With Us! "I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals."
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... is making the first of 2 flights for the X prize. :-D http://us.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/29/news.space.xprize.dc.reut/index.html[^]
Sorry :-O The tigress is here :-D
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... is making the first of 2 flights for the X prize. :-D http://us.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/29/news.space.xprize.dc.reut/index.html[^]
I was concerned with the 11:15am update, but it appears that everything has proceeded to go smoothly. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/xprize_full_coverage.html[^] 11: 20 a.m. ET: A sonic boom was heard on the ground. "Everything is great," said a commentator. 11:18 a.m. ET: SpaceShipOne appears to be in control and is turning from a spaceship into an airplane as it re-enters the atmosphere and begins its glide back to the airport/spaceport. The crowd on the ground caught visual sight of the vessel and cheered. 11:15 a.m. ET: SpaceShipOne went into an unexpected roll and shut down its main engines just after they started, following a high-altitude drop from its mothership. Webcast commentators were concerned. But it appeared the required altitude was reached. Jim QTExtender - The OFFICIAL addon for QuoteTracker.
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I am beginning to spare. I think I'll get that sum of money before 2123.
Fold With Us! "I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals."
I wouldn't get your hopes up - if it's anything like Virgin's other travel enterprises (no pun intended) I'm sure Virgin Galactic (seriously, that's the name they plan to use) will find all its flights delayed due to the wrong kind of cosmic dust, or something :~ -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
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... is making the first of 2 flights for the X prize. :-D http://us.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/29/news.space.xprize.dc.reut/index.html[^]
One down, one to go!!![^] Robert Bigelow, billionaire hotel magnate and space tourism promoter...Bigelow this week announced a new prize of $50 million for the first private group that can build an orbiting, passenger-carrying spacecraft. Steve
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Anyone got the £100K[^] ($180K US) Richard Branson wants to take people up in their ship? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
benjymous wrote: ($180K US) I think I have the 180... I'm just saving for that 'K' :-O -- LuisR ___________ Luis Alonso Ramos Chihuahua, Mexico www.luisalonsoramos.com
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One down, one to go!!![^] Robert Bigelow, billionaire hotel magnate and space tourism promoter...Bigelow this week announced a new prize of $50 million for the first private group that can build an orbiting, passenger-carrying spacecraft. Steve
Steve Mayfield wrote: Robert Bigelow, billionaire hotel magnate and space tourism promoter...Bigelow this week announced a new prize of $50 million for the first private group that can build an orbiting, passenger-carrying spacecraft. Golly. I'm actually getting all warm and fuzyy inside thinking that I just might live long enough to see in reality what I used to only dream of as a youth reading all those Heinlein and Asimov novels and stories. Damn! Life is good today. Best, Jerry
I Do Whatever My Rice Krispies Tell Me To. Toasty0.com
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Sorry :-O The tigress is here :-D
To baldly go where no Picard has gone before. :) -- Suche Wissen über Alles. Der Student
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Steve Mayfield wrote: Robert Bigelow, billionaire hotel magnate and space tourism promoter...Bigelow this week announced a new prize of $50 million for the first private group that can build an orbiting, passenger-carrying spacecraft. Golly. I'm actually getting all warm and fuzyy inside thinking that I just might live long enough to see in reality what I used to only dream of as a youth reading all those Heinlein and Asimov novels and stories. Damn! Life is good today. Best, Jerry
I Do Whatever My Rice Krispies Tell Me To. Toasty0.com
Toasty0 wrote: Golly. I'm actually getting all warm and fuzyy inside thinking that I just might live long enough to see in reality what I used to only dream of as a youth reading all those Heinlein and Asimov novels and stories. My grandmother was born in 1898 - she used to tell us about the first phone she ever used - the first family radio - the first automobile she ever saw ( in 1912 ) - and the first airplane she ever saw ( at a state fair in 1917 - she had a photo ). She died in 1988 having seen , in her lifetime , the invention of the airplane to the lunar landing to color TV etc.. A remarkable time to live in. When she was 73 we took her on a vacation to Ireland to see her ancestral homeland - on a jet - she was in awe. But the steps taken today are very trivial indeed. Space travel in its reality will be out of the realm of the average person for a long long time barring any discovery of a new methodology but I can see such woderful things as NEO hotels with shuttles out of major airports and hypersonic travel with the aircraft going into partial orbital trajectories. We may not reach the stage of Heinlein or Asimov but we may well see the time when all it takes to go out where the shuttle goes now is a couple thousand bucks - and thats a hell of a long way if you think about it- just over 100 years after mans first powered flight. Richard "Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer --Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Steve Mayfield wrote: Robert Bigelow, billionaire hotel magnate and space tourism promoter...Bigelow this week announced a new prize of $50 million for the first private group that can build an orbiting, passenger-carrying spacecraft. Golly. I'm actually getting all warm and fuzyy inside thinking that I just might live long enough to see in reality what I used to only dream of as a youth reading all those Heinlein and Asimov novels and stories. Damn! Life is good today. Best, Jerry
I Do Whatever My Rice Krispies Tell Me To. Toasty0.com
I bet you'll be looking for the women in brass bikinis ;P The tigress is here :-D