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Mike Melvill Chosen To Fly SpaceShipOne

Posted by timothy on from the good-luck-up-there dept.

ansimon writes "Mike Melvill is chosen to fly SpaceShipOne to the outer limits of this rock that we call earth. Mike will be the first to earn his astronaut wings with a privately-developed aeroplane/rocket. A new era of space exploration is about to begin! Godspeed and come back safe, so the rest of us can go too..."

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  1. Re:Memorial Stone Thread by Fortunato_NC · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    *Completely* off-topic, mod as such... :-)

    But there is a disk image of the old "Oregon Trail" game for Apple II floating around the net, that has saved on it, a "tombstone" from a player who died surprisingly early in the game. The headstone reads:

    peperony and cheese

    I grin everytime I play Oregon Trail. I love it when the barely literate attempt humor. What do you want on your Tombstone, indeed.

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