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SpaceShipOne Rockets To 68,000 Feet

Posted by simoniker on from the that's-quite-high dept.

ehartwell writes "According to Space.com, Scaled Composite's SpaceShipOne flew its first rocket-powered flight today, the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' 12-second first flight. SpaceShipOne's engine burned for 15 seconds, pushing it to Mach 1.2 (930 mph) and a peak altitude of 68,000 feet. To win the X-Prize they need to reach 330,000 feet twice within 2 weeks."

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  1. Re:50 years from now... by autopr0n · · Score: 1, Troll

    .The only textbooks I recall running across that mentioned him would've been for AFJROTC...and there's a fair chance most of the kids taking that would've learned of Chuck Yeager on their own anyway. About the only aerospace milestones you're likely to run across in the average haskrool history textbook are the Wright brothers' first flight and Apollo 11...and even those aren't guaranteed. (It's not even guaranteed that most kids will ever take a real history course before college...instead of history and civics, they're more likely to end up in some watered-down "social studies" classes instead.)

    I think your use of a rush-Limbaugh-ism ought to disqualify your comments in general, ellipsis boi. No doubt the watered-down 'social-studies' classes are the result of 'the liberals' trying to keep real history from the minds of impressionable yoots where they would learn truth, justice, and the neo-con way which is implied by true world history. Do you have any facts, figures, statistics of any kind to back up your wild assertions?

    "If Howard Dean had his way, Saddam Hussein would still be in power today, not in prison..." -Joe Lieberman

    This is true. And 459 Americans who are now dead, would be alive. If you could make the choice of saddam being in power or sacrificing the lives of people you loved, would you have made that choice. This war was not supposed to be about brining one man to justice. Joe Leiberman is a punk.

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    autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
  2. errr... by tempny · · Score: 0, Troll

    I really hope there's nothing to this, but doesn't "white knight" sound a tad politically incorrect?

  3. Re:50 years from now... by RickHunter · · Score: 1, Troll

    I can guarantee you there are at least a half-dozen other evil dictators who regularly do the same sorts of thing.

    Heck, I'm willing to bet there's at least a half-dozen evil dictators who regularly do the same things and are best buddies with Bush. Lets start with China and Pakistan, and move on from there, shall we?