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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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    -- We live in a world where lemonade is artificial and soap has real lemon.
  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.