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Ansari X Prize 2nd Launch Live Thread - Launch at 6:30 PDT
10/03/04
Posted on 10/03/2004 3:14:24 PM PDT by KevinDavis
I know this is early, but heck I'm excited.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: 10million; americasfinest; history; moveoversputnik; privatespaceflight; scaled; space; whiteknight; xprize
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Go Burt!
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; sionnsar; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; ...
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posted on
10/03/2004 3:15:01 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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posted on
10/03/2004 3:18:00 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: KevinDavis
You should note the actual launch is not til 6:30 AM Monday
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posted on
10/03/2004 3:20:03 PM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(That which does not kill me had better be able to run away damn fast.)
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posted on
10/03/2004 3:20:36 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: All
Note:
There will be people where who can't view the x-prize launch live (like me). If you can please post any pictures that you have..
Thank you.
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posted on
10/03/2004 3:22:31 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: KevinDavis
Is this going to be televised live?
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posted on
10/03/2004 3:34:24 PM PDT
by
Quick_Rod
To: Quick_Rod
NASA TV carried flight 1 live and I believe they will carry flight 2 live.
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posted on
10/03/2004 3:57:20 PM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Rather calls Saddam "Mister President" and calls President Bush "bush")
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
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posted on
10/03/2004 4:11:45 PM PDT
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: Quick_Rod
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posted on
10/03/2004 4:48:30 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: KevinDavis
It won't be light yet, but if I don't trip over a sleeping moose on the way to the shop at that hour I should be online here then. 5:30 AM, no problem.
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posted on
10/03/2004 4:50:46 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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posted on
10/03/2004 5:26:42 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: KevinDavis
The Discovery channel is running a special on Rutan's spacecraft right now. It runs for 2 hours and will repeat at 11PM CST.
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posted on
10/03/2004 6:13:59 PM PDT
by
Brett66
(Dan Rather, the most busted man in America.)
To: Quick_Rod
If you have cable, The Science Channel will carry it live plus this will be on all of the news channels when it happens. Fox, CNN, MSNBC all carried the first flight rather extensively.
To: All
The Discovery Science Channel (on sattelite and digital cable) will be covering the launch of SpaceShipOne tommorrow. I think they should have much better coverage than the news channels, at the very least they won't cover up the screen with their graphics.
If anyone hasn't had the opportunity to see the Discovery Channels special ,Black Sky, do yourself a favor and watch it. They will air it again on Thursday or Friday.
Burt reveals some of his plans for the future, incredibly exciting stuff. He shows a 3d picture of the orbital version of SpaceShipOne that has a rocket booster as it's first stage in place of the White Knight. It looks like it could carry 8-10 people with large windows for passengers to get a great view on the way to orbit, he shows it docked at a rotating space station, much like the Wernher Von Braun concepts.
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posted on
10/03/2004 8:12:21 PM PDT
by
Brett66
(Dan Rather, the most busted man in America.)
To: Brett66
Just got through watching the Discovery Channel's special about Spaceship One. My favorite part had to be when they tested one of the rocket engines to see how much ambient heat it was giving off. Their high tech solution was to attach hot dogs, buns, marshmallows and a couple of t-shirts to the fence surrounding the test structure. They had a shot of Rutan tasting one of the marshmallows afterwards. Too funny!
To: Reaganesque
That was great, and the way they tested that redesigned tailfin. It was so simple and inexpensive, yet effective. That's what it's all about, finding new ways or rediscovering old ways to do things to get the job done.
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posted on
10/03/2004 8:18:34 PM PDT
by
Brett66
(Dan Rather, the most busted man in America.)
To: KevinDavis
To: Brett66
The "Land Shark"! I loved that to!!
To: Brett66
Burt reveals some of his plans for the future, incredibly exciting stuff. He shows a 3d picture of the orbital version of SpaceShipOne that has a rocket booster as it's first stage in place of the White Knight. It looks like it could carry 8-10 people with large windows for passengers to get a great view on the way to orbit, I think separating people hauling from cargo hauling could be a very successful strategy.
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posted on
10/03/2004 8:31:52 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Federal Creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it.)
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