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First Flight For SpaceShipTwo

Posted by timothy on from the next-time-do-it-from-l.a. dept.

mknewman writes "Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket plane took to the air for the first time this [Monday] morning from California's Mojave Air and Space Port. The craft, which has been christened the VSS Enterprise, remained firmly attached to its WhiteKnightTwo carrier airplane throughout the nearly three-hour test flight. It will take many months of further tests before SpaceShipTwo actually goes into outer space. Nevertheless, today's outing marks an important milestone along a path that could take paying passengers to the final frontier as early as 2011 or 2012."

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  1. Re:Space with no space by MyLongNickName · · Score: 3, Funny

    For an extra $50k, I am sure they would be willing to push you out into open space.

    Who wants to start the collection?

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  2. They had to go and name it Enterprise... by ctmurray · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is like one of those time travel conundrums - did we name it Enterprise because we saw the future, or was the future influenced by what we named it here in the present?

    1. Re:They had to go and name it Enterprise... by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

      Please see this post for the answer.

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  3. Re:Space with no space by Jurily · · Score: 4, Funny

    2 to the negative power of a phone number.

  4. Better headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    A much better headline for the article would have been "Virgin spaceship gets its cherry popped".

    1. Re:Better headline by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nah, the cherry will be popped when it actually gets up into space. This is more like a first kiss, with no tongue.

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