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FUS1ON
06-21-2004, 01:14 AM
As someone who was around when the space race was first beginning some 40+ years ago, I think it's amazing that if all goes well tomorrow, It will mark the 1st time a privately funded & developed spacecraft with enter into and return from space. :w00t:

SpaceShipOne Website LINK (http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/062104.htm)
FUS1ON
06-21-2004, 11:09 PM
Oh man did y'all hear that he blacked out, couldn't get turned around and is headed towards Saturn? LINK (http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/06/21/suborbital.test/index.html)

Man that'sad
EXEcution
06-21-2004, 11:13 PM
:rofl:
Must have been one helluva experience.
NightBreed
06-22-2004, 12:18 AM
:wootrock: That's awesome !! Hard to say which direction a privately funded project like that will take though... :hmmm:
FUS1ON
07-04-2004, 10:14 PM
Pictures of the flight LINK (http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/SpaceShipOne2004/index.html)
Aries
07-04-2004, 10:31 PM
Originally posted by Outlaws Shogun@Jul 4 2004, 10:14 PM
Pictures of the flight LINK (http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/SpaceShipOne2004/index.html)
Sweet :wootrock: :thumbs:
long-island-ice-tea
07-05-2004, 01:00 PM
I heard that they call this plane
the flying sausage
Die Hard
07-05-2004, 01:36 PM
Old news now but great all the same :thumbs: