SpaceShipOne to Attempt Second Flight on Monday

Posted by michael on Friday October 1, 2004 @05:56AM from the i-feel-lucky dept.

m_member writes "There is a very cool video of the recent SpaceShipOne flight (on the Scaled video page) as covered by Slashdot. It shows some angles not on the webcast and most impressively has internal footage from when the roll occurred in the ascent. There are no M&Ms this time but Melville takes a few holiday snaps!" Gogo Dodo writes "After a successful first flight for the X Prize, SpaceShipOne is a go for launch to claim the X Prize on Monday. Takeoff is at 7am Pacific, ignition at 8am." October 4 will be the anniversary of the Sputnik launch.

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Its Amazing.. by korthof · 2004-10-01 06:03 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Well hell.. we can now go to mars (a la bush) if we could just get that pesky crossenvironment biodome thing worked out.

Remind me why I would put my life in the hands of people, when we still cant account for cross programs breaking code.

"Why did the airlock fail? Someone flushed the toilet Sir."