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The Spaceshipone has just taken off from the Mojave Desert!!

The world's first privately funded rocket plane plans to shoot beyond the uppermost layers of Earth's atmosphere June 21, 2004. The SpaceShipOne is pictured landing at the Mojave Airport in this undated photograph.

Aerospace engineer Burt Rutan, left, designer of SpaceShipOne, greets project backer Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, at a news briefing at Mojave, Calif., airport Sunday, June 20, 2004. SpaceShipOne is a privately developed rocket plane that will become the world's commercial manned space vehicle and the first non-governmental flight to leave the Earth's atmosphere with its scheduled flight on Monday, June 21.




So who wants to take a ride into space??  Pretty Cool!!
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Re: SPACESHIPONE has taken off - Could be history in the making!!
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2004, 03:03:22 PM »
Don't think it'll be mainstream in my lifetime.. but just the thought of it seems too 'Total Recall'  :D


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Re: SPACESHIPONE has taken off - Could be history in the making!!
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2004, 03:14:11 PM »
WOW!  look at that thing!


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« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2004, 03:18:00 PM »
That looks a bit scary!!!  But wow!  How cool!  I wanted to go to the moon when I was a kid, or so my mom says.  Guess I could now!!!  But, hmmm, I don't know just yet.  First I have to make my millions I guess. ;D


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Re: SPACESHIPONE has taken off - Could be history in the making!!
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2004, 03:30:40 PM »
I don't know about it myself. 

I have a tremendous fear of flying let along flying into space.  ;)  I'll do just fine with my two feet solidly on the ground.  :D

It should be reaching the outer limit of the earth's atmosphere around in thirty minutes or so (I think).  Aviation History!!!  That's what they're proclaiming..
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« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2004, 03:34:35 PM »
Man, that thing looks like something outta Star Wars does'nt it 8)


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