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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Peter Diamandis was heard saying by Neil+Blender · 2004-10-01 06:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Damnit, where am I going to get 10 million dollars?
Re:Media Coverage by Tablizer · 2004-10-01 06:39 · Score: 5, Funny

a majority of the questions asked of him were about the unexpected roll

Media: "Can you please comment on the repeated rolls in which you kept rolling around and around and around in a dizzying, girating, spiraling, stomach-spinning fashion as if it would never end?" (making spinning hand-gestures)

Pilot: "Bwwaaaaarrrrrf" (splat)

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