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New SpaceShip One Photos Online

Posted by timothy on from the with-a-fisheye-lens-I'm-in-space-now dept.

Alex Edwards writes "Scaled now have the latest photos from their last 200,000-ft. trip online. The earth curvature on this one shows just how close they got to space."

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  1. Don't forget to say the Shepard's prayer. by Picass0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Alan Shepard - before the flight of Freedom 7:

    "Oh Lord, Please don't let me fuck up."

  2. Visions from Space by TALlama · · Score: 5, Funny

    Their success has driven them mad; here's the pilot afterwards explaining that "I saw a woman up there with huge breasts!"

    --

    - The Amazina Llama

    1. Re:Visions from Space by GOD_ALMIGHTY · · Score: 4, Funny

      No No No! He was talking about her huuuge tracks of land.

      Later, he told the two guards to make sure Space Ship One doesn't leave. Unfortunately, the White Knight later showed up and slaughtered the reporters and attempted a rescue, in it's own.... oh... oh... uhm... idiom.

      --
      Arrogance is Confidence which lacks integrity. -- me
  3. Re:Bribe? by Kiriwas · · Score: 2, Funny

    Im pretty sure the ??? in this situation is sell the movie rights for the whole thing BACK to Paramount Pictures.

  4. Re:Random Thoughts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thought the same thing as well (that the plane had a N number, like any ordinary Cessna would). To paraphrase an old aviation joke:

    N328KF: Approach control, 328 kilo fox, requesting flight level 1000.
    Approach: 328 kilo fox, approach, did you say FL one *thousand*?
    N328KF: Approach control, 328 kilo fox, that would be an affirmative.
    Approach: 328 kilo fox, approach, err, request approved, FL 1000 if able (snicker)
    N328KF: Roger, *descending* to FL 1000.