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SpaceShipOne Approved By The FAA  
User currently offlineStarlionblue From Hong Kong, joined Feb 2004, 15871 posts, RR: 66
Posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 1754 times:

Seems to me like Scaled Composites might well win the XPrize!

A great opportunity to deliver on aviation promises made back in the 50s and 60s!

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/04/08/rocket.license.ap/index.html


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User currently offlinePelican From Germany, joined Apr 2004, 2530 posts, RR: 8
Reply 1, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 1608 times:

Great, I think Rutan will win the Xprize. Finally his space ship one performs better than Carmack's Black Armadillo.
I wonder when we will need the new forum spaceliners.net?


good night

User currently offlineBubbinski From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 159 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 1548 times:

This is GREAT news. Now they've gotten up to Mach 2 and 100,000 plus feet, and I am looking forward to when they blast off into suborbital space. I could see the first suborbital "spaceline" within 5-7 years. Virgin Spacelines? Or maybe Paul Allen will start it? Between this, the X-43, and other developments I'm pretty optimistic about us finally getting regular tourist spaceflights and hypersonic hops across the oceans.

Bring it on!

Bubbinski


"Simplify" - Thoreau
User currently offlineAloha717200 From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 4397 posts, RR: 17
Reply 3, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 1491 times:

This is history-making news! Very exciting!

User currently offlineDfwRevolution From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1381 times:

Finally his space ship one performs better than Carmack's Black Armadillo.

I think Armadillo plans captive hover tests this week, weather pending? I'm a Dallas native and I love a good underdog... so go Armadillo!

But this is great news for Scaled... I just hope they do something with the concept after they win, instead of drop it and move on like Rutan says. I'd be a damn shame to win the prize then stop, to me that'd be like winning a Nobel prize just to put it on a wall.

Regards,
DFW

User currently offlineJhooper From United States of America, joined Dec 2001, 6195 posts, RR: 13
Reply 5, posted (9 years 1 month 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1315 times:

Wouldn't the President have to be on board to call it Space Ship One?  Big thumbs up


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