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First Private Manned Orbital Flight Announced

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the looking-forward-to-tickets dept.

Miroslav Ambrus-Kis wrote in to tell us that Inter-orbital Systems has announced that Nebojsa Stanojevic and Miroslav Ambrus-Kis will be the astronauts aboard the first completely private orbital flight. This is part of their bid for the Google Lunar X-Prize.

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  1. The first PLANNED private orbital spaceflight by Andy+Dodd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They haven't launched yet (and are at least two years from launch according to their plans), so there's no way to guarantee their claims.

    If you look at their news page there is a 2004 announcement that they'd be launching a satellite in 2006, but there is no news of an actual launch.

    In fact I don't even see news of a flight test of any sort, let alone a full orbital launch.

    TBH the website also looks like a pretty fly-by-night operation. You would think that a company with enough money to launch a manned space mission would be able to hire a web designer.

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    retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?