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FAA Grants Sub-Orbital License to SpaceShipOne
abucior writes "The FAA announced today that Scaled Composites has been granted a launch licence for a series of sub-orbital flights over a one-year period for Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne. Is X Prize finally entering the end-game? Space.com has more information on the move."
Can you imagine the call to the insurance company to get a policy? I don't think "saving a bundle" is one of the options.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
You have to be able to sing "Rocket Man" from memory.
Gee, i wonder if the FAA issues 'vanity plates'? I also wonder if the license plate will be made of low-drag material. Do they have to display inspection stickers on the windshield? So many questions come to mind. Ponderous.
The Department of Energy banned larger bowled toilets so frankly we need government approval for more than the skies.
In a practical sense, you don't need there stupid aircraft hitting another aircraft, so it really is best to check. Without governement regulation on the sky it might be a little more difficult to get from point A to point B, because idiot C has a hot air balloon, near an airport and causes plane D to be flameball E.
It is no longer uncommon to be uncommon.
And what exactly are they going to use to shoot down your rocket travelling at hypersonic speeds?
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Keep the rocket, launch the lawyers.
You have to be able to sing "Rocket Man" from memory.
So does William Shatner have such a license, then?
Like what I said? You might like my music
Bush doesn't want us on the moon. Why? Think of the evening news stories: "Today, Apollo 59 landed on the moon again, costing taxpayers $155 trillion dollars, drilled some tiny holes in rocks, took several pictures, discovered NO WEAPONS of mass distruction and found 6 more votes for Al Gore."
Of course, the American chimp-speakers will undoubtedly demand too high of a salary, so they'll probably just teach someone from an Indian call center how to speak chimp as well as they speak English and save a bundle.
... but is it compatible with the GPL, if not, we cannot support it.
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
...after all, it's only Paul Allen funding it.
If they can lauch one Microsoft Founder into space, why not both of them?
The man says you gotta be able to sing... what part of that do you not understand?