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SpaceShipOne to Attempt Second Flight on Monday
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.
Is a good shot of the re-entry. I want so bad to see those wings actually fold up, that's too cool!
Anyone else out there who find it almost anime-esque?
Oops, how did this get here?
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According to http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4219/Chapter6.html the development costs for the X15 program for development, and 8 years of operational flights were estimated at $300 Million in 1969 dollars. According to http://www.thespacereview.com/article/204/1 that $300 million in 1969 dollars is the equivalent of 1.5 Billion dollars (2004 dollars).
WAAAAY to go Scaled Composites!
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