SpaceShipOne Flight Test

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Posted by michael on Saturday August 9, 2003 @08:46AM from the keep-parachute-handy dept.

Soft writes "Scaled Composites' entry for the X-Prize, the SpaceShipOne, has had a successful first (unpowered) flight test. The spacecraft was dropped from the White Knight carrier aircraft at 47,000 ft (14 km) and 105 kt (194 km/h, 120 mph) and touched down after a 1.1-hour glide at Mojave airport. Photos are available."

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if(!post.postition==0){mod(-1,troll)}else{shit();) by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-09 08:49 · Score: -1, Troll
The Brain is back! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-09 08:53 · Score: -1, Troll

< I have sex with traffic cones! > \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
Dear CmdrTaco by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-09 08:54 · Score: -1, Troll

Please fire Michael

TIA
qeustion plz by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-09 08:54 · Score: -1, Troll

how do become linux gurur?????
1. Re:qeustion plz by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-09 09:00 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  1) RTFM
  2) STFW
  3) Learn gnu/english
  4) Suck Havoc penningtons "HIG"
  5) Recompile your Kernel
  6> type cowsay I am leet and post output to slashdot.
  7) Install potato
  8) ???
  9) GNU/PROFIT!
Bush and his neocon cronies ofcourse by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-09 09:14 · Score: -1, Troll

(BB is watching)
Re:free software, and movies by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-09 09:23 · Score: -1, Troll

just wait until it's closed down and the logs give away your pirate ways.
how do you feel about a 10-year sentence in a pound-me-in-the-ass federal prison?
Re:OMG!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-09 09:26 · Score: -1, Troll

I guess you're an immature little teen-age boy who likes sweating night and day in a friggin' 50'C nightmare of a climate just to get peek at the "booty".
Fuck you little twerp!
Re:free software, and movies by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-09 09:28 · Score: -1, Troll

Unlike you, I do not live in a police state...
oh really? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-09 09:32 · Score: -1, Troll

let's not forget who invented the pill and other ways of birthcontrol, controls the us, and is now flooding our ancient lands with millions of negroes, moors, turks and eastern european gangsters: the jews
Congratulations, moderators/editors! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-09 09:34 · Score: -1, Troll

you banned one of my proxies, now I hope you get sleep paralysis!
Re:look at the bright side of global warming by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-09 10:05 · Score: -1, Troll

I'm hoping they'll try to head up north, that would mean the far right would be able to gain power over most of Europe *mental orgasm*