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SpaceShipOne to Try for Space on Monday

Posted by michael on from the life-insurance-paid-up-i-hope dept.

CommanderData writes "The first piloted private space flight will occur Monday at 9:30AM ET. SpaceShipOne is planning to ascend to the 62 mile (100 Km) mark and return to land at its takeoff point over the course of 90 minutes. With only a pilot (unnamed at this time) on board this does not qualify as a run for the Ansari X-Prize. If the flight is successful they will likely try for the prize soon afterward..." An anonymous reader adds: "Scaled Composites also has this page about the event."

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  1. Re:Sign me up! by domodude · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, don't sign me up. I have a feeling that on Tuesday I will be reading a slashdot story titled something along the lines of "Spaceship explodes; one dead."

  2. Re:You gotta learn to walk before you learn to run by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    >No. Most of the work is getting to a velocity of 8 km/sec.

    No!? So sure, are you?

    >So SpaceShipOne is 10% of the way to orbit (in terms of energy).

    Clue alert - he wasn't talking about energy. Try actually reading his post to discover he was talking about work to solve engineering problems, not how much fucking energy it takes to attain oribital velocity.

    once you've got a device capable of 1) it's a LOT less than doubling the engineering to upgrade it for 2).

    See, that wasn't so hard, was it?