Monday, June 21, 2004

SpaceShipOne does it again

Yahoo News says: Plane Soars Out of Earth's Atmosphere

CNN says: Private craft soars into space, history

You can read about the entire Ansari X-Prize situation, including where other teams are at right now by visiting xprize.org Page loading may be slow today. :)

I say SpaceShipOne does it again, because on May 13th they reached an altitude of 211,400 feet. On April 8th, they went over 100,000 ft up. Another test flight occurred on March 4th.
They're sending SpaceShipOne up an average of once every 5 weeks. Once every five weeks! The same craft!

L and I watched a replay on CNN. He really enjoyed the floating M&M's. I really enjoyed watching the sky turn black.
If we didn't have L's highschool and college looming ahead of us, I would take out a home equity loan and send the Hubby-Man on the first commercially available flight. At a projected $20,000 it's a bargain!

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