Scaled Composites announces date for their attempt at sub-orbital flight.
CNN story here.
Go to it, boys!
CNN story here.
Go to it, boys!
Private spacecraft blast offs June 21
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flyover
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Scaled Composites announces date for their attempt at sub-orbital flight.
CNN story here.
Go to it, boys!
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I'm definitely rooting for them. It's a little sad to think what the space program could have been if we had left it in the hands of American engineers instead of turning it over to the germans. We had the best aerospace people in the world, hands down, and we shut them out in favor of Werner and his boys.
Now guys like Rutan can pick up the ball and run. It's been a long time coming.
Scaled Composites announces date for their attempt at sub-orbital flight.
CNN story here.
Go to it, boys!
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I'm definitely rooting for them. It's a little sad to think what the space program could have been if we had left it in the hands of American engineers instead of turning it over to the germans. We had the best aerospace people in the world, hands down, and we shut them out in favor of Werner and his boys.
Now guys like Rutan can pick up the ball and run. It's been a long time coming.
cointyro
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This is SWEET.
I want to go watch, badly. Anyone interested? Leaving from Palo Alto / Bay Area Sunday night June 20, about five hours drive.
I've posted also at craigslist looking for interest:
http://www.craigslist.org/stp/32724195.html
Anyone else going / wanting to go?
I want to go watch, badly. Anyone interested? Leaving from Palo Alto / Bay Area Sunday night June 20, about five hours drive.
I've posted also at craigslist looking for interest:
http://www.craigslist.org/stp/32724195.html
Anyone else going / wanting to go?
donttouchanything
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I'm definitely rooting for them. It's a little sad to think what the space program could have been if we had left it in the hands of American engineers instead of turning it over to the germans. We had the best aerospace people in the world, hands down, and we shut them out in favor of Werner and his boys.
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If it were not for Werner Von Braun there never would have been an American space program. The Mighty Saturn Five was his design and the only launch system with a 100% success rate. The thing that has damaged our space program has been the American Beaurocrat.
I'm definitely rooting for them. It's a little sad to think what the space program could have been if we had left it in the hands of American engineers instead of turning it over to the germans. We had the best aerospace people in the world, hands down, and we shut them out in favor of Werner and his boys.
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If it were not for Werner Von Braun there never would have been an American space program. The Mighty Saturn Five was his design and the only launch system with a 100% success rate. The thing that has damaged our space program has been the American Beaurocrat.
