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Hamma
2004-06-21, 10:45 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/06/21/suborbital.test/index.html
Rayder
2004-06-21, 10:49 AM
Flawless takeoff, but how will the landing be? Anyways, shouldn't you be at work Hamma? Or maybe you are at work!
Hamma
2004-06-21, 10:52 AM
I'm at work ;)
Infernus
2004-06-21, 10:55 AM
Wonderful... I've been really interested in this flight since planning began...
Mushnator
2004-06-21, 11:14 AM
At least it hasn't blown up yet. :thumbsup:
Hayoo
2004-06-21, 11:42 AM
Looks like they did it. :) Mike Melvill and SpaceshipOne belong to the history books.
Triggar
2004-06-21, 11:43 AM
This is awesome - I always thought Burt Rutan's design was the best (I researched the competitors for a report), it was well-planned and logically functioning.

I expect they will win the X-Prize before the year is out, and I expect to train for my astronaut wings sometime before the decade is out ....
Infernus
2004-06-21, 11:45 AM
This is awesome - I always thought Burt Rutan's design was the best (I researched the competitors for a report), it was well-planned and logically functioning.

I expect they will win the X-Prize before the year is out, and I expect to train for my astronaut wings sometime before the decade is out ....

Go For the Gold Captain Triggar of the PSU Sechs-a-lot!


EDIT: Seriously... It'll be cool to know that I knew an astronaut when I was a kid...
Triggar
2004-06-21, 11:46 AM
Go For the Gold Captain Triggar of the PSU Sechs-a-lot!

Just for that, I will find you and make you my first passenger on a commercial space flight :love:

Weirdo.
Hamma
2004-06-21, 11:46 AM
Yep it was a success :D
Triggar
2004-06-21, 11:49 AM
They launched today with only one man in the cockpit - they're going to do it twice more, with three people on-board, and then they'll officially win the X-Prize.

If I were on one of the competing teams, I'd either put a flame under everyone's ass and try and beat them (doubtful, since they'd have to get their FAA license to do it, and secure a launching site) or I'd start selling off the pieces to cover my debt!

This is so amazing that we lived to see the day!
Infernus
2004-06-21, 11:52 AM
They launched today with only one man in the cockpit - they're going to do it twice more, with three people on-board, and then they'll officially win the X-Prize.

If I were on one of the competing teams, I'd either put a flame under everyone's ass and try and beat them (doubtful, since they'd have to get their FAA license to do it, and secure a launching site) or I'd start selling off the pieces to cover my debt!

This is so amazing that we lived to see the day!

IMHO it was bound to happen in this lifetime... what with the sudden interest in expanding beyond the bounds of Earth... In my opinion it won't be a government agency that gets us to mars, rather a corperation or guild or some such...
MadCat360
2004-06-21, 01:17 PM
w00t! Thats just fantastic! I LOVE space! I cant wait to take a trip in that! w00t!
AztecWarrior
2004-06-21, 01:18 PM
Str8 ballin'

Just kidding. That owns. Will he make it by the end of the year? Don't know. However, there are some weird entries: One of them has a rocket which is to be towed up by a hot-air balloon and then fired. Another has a sea launch.
Jennyboo
2004-06-21, 01:21 PM
Cool :D:D
Squeeky
2004-06-21, 07:28 PM
Fucking nuts
Squeeky
2004-06-21, 08:10 PM
http://www.genmay.net/showthread.php?p=9927297#post9927297

:eek: :eek:
Spider
2004-06-21, 08:30 PM
Fuck! No big explosions... no human corpse falling from the skies... no chunks of metal landing in houses or on people....







That flight sucked...
Squeeky
2004-06-21, 09:23 PM
Fuck! No big explosions... no human corpse falling from the skies... no chunks of metal landing in houses or on people....







That flight sucked...

Didnt you leave PSU?
Hamma
2004-06-21, 09:27 PM
He's back like everyone always comes back, even banned people like yourself. :p
jsloan31
2004-06-21, 09:31 PM
He saved one sign as a memento of the occasion: "SpaceShipOne; GovernmentZero".

Just thought that was kinda funny.

But, cool.
Squeeky
2004-06-21, 09:42 PM
He's back like everyone always comes back, even banned people like yourself. :p

http://planetside-universe.com/forums/showpost.php?p=352597&postcount=28

:lol: :lol:

You called it
Everay
2004-06-21, 10:39 PM
hate to say it but the gov has made about a thousand trips to space so umm, SpaceShip 1, gov, 1000, gov wins.
Baneblade
2004-06-21, 10:41 PM
What was the difference in budget...I bet the SSO would get more mileage...;)