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Private Rocket Ship Breaks Space Barrier (Cool Photo Slide Show with Audio of SS1 Flight)
MSNBC ^
| June 22, 2004
| Alan Boyle
Posted on 06/24/2004 7:58:16 PM PDT by anymouse
With a triumphant thumbs-up and a broad grin, the pilot of the SpaceShipOne rocket plane celebrated becoming the first private-sector astronaut to steer his ship into space.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Technical; US: California
KEYWORDS: goliath; rutan; space; spaceshipone; xprize
Collection of articles and interactive multimedia features dedicated to the emerging private space exploration and travel industry, SpaceShipOne, and the X Prize.
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posted on
06/24/2004 7:58:17 PM PDT
by
anymouse
To: KevinDavis; *Space
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posted on
06/24/2004 7:58:44 PM PDT
by
anymouse
To: anymouse
SpaceShipOne is way cool. Thanks. "Gold Rush on the final frontier." Hot damn. Wish we could all live to be 500.
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posted on
06/24/2004 8:07:38 PM PDT
by
Huck
(Be nice to chubby rodents. You know, woodchucks, guinea pigs, beavers, marmots, porcupines...)
To: anymouse
Not to go off on "diversity" or anything, but the picture of the black women with braided hair smiling as SpaceShipOne comes in for a landing is just cool. That's what America is all about right there. It's a beautiful thing.
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posted on
06/24/2004 8:10:38 PM PDT
by
Huck
(Be nice to chubby rodents. You know, woodchucks, guinea pigs, beavers, marmots, porcupines...)
To: anymouse
The shot of pilot Michael Melvill with his arms up in the air triumpantly is cool, too. Man o man. Remember that name. Michael Melvill. First privately done space flight. It's about time.
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posted on
06/24/2004 8:12:05 PM PDT
by
Huck
(Be nice to chubby rodents. You know, woodchucks, guinea pigs, beavers, marmots, porcupines...)
To: Huck
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posted on
06/24/2004 8:12:37 PM PDT
by
Huck
(Be nice to chubby rodents. You know, woodchucks, guinea pigs, beavers, marmots, porcupines...)
To: anymouse
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posted on
06/24/2004 8:13:32 PM PDT
by
Mulder
(Those who would give up liberty for temporary security, deserve neither -- Ben Franklin)
To: anymouse
How odd to see a leftist news site actually promoting innovation, science, America (or haven't they realized that yet?), education, prize money???!!!
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posted on
06/24/2004 8:25:25 PM PDT
by
steplock
(http://www.gohotsprings.com)
To: anymouse; Phil V.; KevinDavis
Kool!!...........FRegards
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posted on
06/24/2004 8:27:32 PM PDT
by
gonzo
(God bless Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, their children, and the USA. We were lucky to have them!.....)
To: anymouse
The American spirit of adventure is still alive and well in California's high desert.
To: Mulder
And all I ever did was build a soap box racer that lost a wheel.
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posted on
06/24/2004 9:18:07 PM PDT
by
AUH2OY2K
To: anymouse
That #%^$#%^ Microslop site insists on placing a cookie on your hard drive. If you don't allow it to do so, it sends a "communications error" message.
Microslop and its MSN can go to H3|| !!!
Inviolable policy: nothing from Microsoft ever gets on my computers.
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posted on
06/24/2004 9:31:46 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
(ROE: Any masked male civilian in Iraq is a legitimate sniper target.)
To: anymouse
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posted on
06/24/2004 9:47:17 PM PDT
by
anymouse
To: Mulder
LOL! What a great sign. I admire the NASA guys, but sheesh... listening to one of them go into a "chicken little" rant before SpaceShipOne's first launch was a little telling.
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posted on
06/24/2004 11:04:09 PM PDT
by
cgk
(3000+ 9/11. Pearl, Fallujah, Berg, Jacobs, Scroggs, Johnson, Sun-il... Never forget. Never Again!)
To: cgk; Mulder
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posted on
06/29/2004 6:44:26 AM PDT
by
rhema
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