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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. Wonderful! by NetRanger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's really sad to see such great news as this smothered beneath the noise that the mainstream press calls "news".

    THIS is news, this will be written in history books under our accomplishments. How little perspective we have at any given time...

    Anyway, congrats to the Scaled team.

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  2. Earth curvature my ass by zakalwe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The earth curvature on this one shows just how close they got to space.

    Right, so I guess they were just really really close to the ground on this one, as it curves the other way!

    http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/New_Index /p hotos/images/video/for_dave.jpg

    Of course what you are really seeing is just wide/narrow angle lenses on the cameras being used, unless the earth shrank a lot while I wasn't looking.

  3. Amazing by lazuli42 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I know that sometimes the Scaled guys drop by slashdot.

    I just wanted to say, "You're doing an amazing job!"

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    1. Re:Amazing by Sgt+York · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Just wanted to second the sentiment. This is great stuff, I was floored looking at those pictures. Amazing. Simply amazing.

      Keep up the good work! And why is this not front page? I mean even on /.. Why is this stuck on the Science page, and not with the main stuff? THIS is news for nerds, and it definately matters.

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  4. Re:Medieval science meets 21st century by MindStalker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No they are for strings for wind tunnel test, so you can see which way the air is blowing.

  5. Re:Anybody else notice the B5 resemblance? by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Correction- not the fighters, the shuttles. The fighters were the wierd triangular config, the shuttles had a central body tube and wings with double tail.

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