If all goes well, SpaceShipOne, at 6:30AM, will become the first private manned space flight. It will take place in the Mojave desert at 6:30AM PDT and SpaceShipOne (designed, built, and paid for by Scaled Composites) will be piloted by Mike Melvill, a test pilot with 19 years experience and (hopefully) soon to be astronaut. CNN will carry live coverage of the historic flight. Lets wish them good luck!! More info here: http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/index.htm :smt033 :smt040 :smt023 rayer: :smt119 :smt118
Cool, I saw this on the news but supposedly he made it up to 100km which is just barely considered space... but let's hope some more comes of this now government-funded space programmes are not what they used to be.
whoa , i saw this like 4 days ago, this is the "something" prize right? the guys that first do it get like 10 millions. is space like 150km? :smt017
Looks like space to me! I don't know about dictionary definition, but they actually have zero g for about 3 minutes and have to go through reentry, so good enough for me :smt023
I saw this on the news today. There was a British guy aiming for the same goal but it now looks like he'll have to settle with second place. Yakumo
Thay made it into "space" barely at 100 km which is just out of the earths atmosphere. Not bad for a non-goverment spaceflight, i hope we see more of these guys in the future :smt023
<government conspiracy mode> Whats the bet it all of a sudden blows up, or fails, with lots of coverage by NASA saying how such a project "is futile/dangerous" </government conspiracy mode> I do hope of course that doesnt happen for obvious reasons.
heck if the government has given up on regular space missions someone else sure as hell may aswell continue the legacy :smt023
They might make it. If they do then cheap space travel will be possible. Hello Mars :smt033 I'm coming for ya. Good luck to them :smt023
first thing that springs to mind is long distance travels, using such a ship to fly just beond the atmosphere would make it possible to fly to the other side in a matter of a few hours. /me imagines going for a shopping spree in tokio every weekend
infact that would cut aircraft emissions significantly as they would be polluting outside of our atmosphere for the majority of the time not within it :smt033
