SpaceShipOne made it!

sachmo · #1 June 21st, 2004, 04:32 PM

Awesome news! SpaceShipOne made it into space!

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/0...est/index.html

Ragnarok-X · #2 June 21st, 2004, 04:47 PM

very good news. Just another 15 years and MAYBE i could as well fly into space.

Captain Kwok · #3 June 21st, 2004, 05:21 PM

Cool. I didn't even know that it was going to be a manned flight, even cooler!

David E. Gervais · #4 June 21st, 2004, 05:49 PM

Now all he needs to do is get that bird up there again within 2 weeks and he can claim the $10,000,000 X-Prize. (does anyone know if a second flight is already scheduled?)

Very interesting, I hope he manages to get up there within the week, it would make the project all the more interesting. It would also prove that 'weekly' flights into space are now within the realm of possibility.

Cool stuff.

Cheers!

Edit: P.S. The ship also looks like a good design for a se4 shipset.

[ June 21, 2004, 16:51: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

Gandalf Parker · #5 June 21st, 2004, 05:55 PM

I thought the X prize also required that it be 3 people. And I was surprised to hear that there are 26? other civilian companys competing for it.

-- (sig line) I always knew the future was coming.
What worries me is that every day it seems to be picking up speed.

[ June 21, 2004, 16:56: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

gregebowman · #6 June 21st, 2004, 06:06 PM

Well, I'm glad to hear it made it too. Now if more civilian companies could do this, maybe we all can make it into space someday without shelling out $20 million. I sure would love to go, if only to the outer edge of space around Earth. Who knows, maybe even before I'm 50? (I'm 41 now.)

mottlee · #7 October 4th, 2004, 02:07 PM

Quote:

David E. Gervais said:
Now all he needs to do is get that bird up there again within 2 weeks and he can claim the $10,000,000 X-Prize. (does anyone know if a second flight is already scheduled?)

Very interesting, I hope he manages to get up there within the week, it would make the project all the more interesting. It would also prove that 'weekly' flights into space are now within the realm of possibility.

Cool stuff.

Cheers! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

Edit: P.S. The ship also looks like a good design for a se4 shipset. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" />

<small>[ June 21, 2004, 16:51: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]</small>

This was the 2nd flight

Randallw · #8 October 4th, 2004, 08:03 PM

Now the question is how long until Microsoft Space Simulator 2005 comes out

. What I am interested in is if it can just make it into space can it be used for long range travel?. You take a short flight into space then return and land on the other side of the world after a half hour flight, or do you have to actually make orbit to do such a thing?.

Baron Munchausen · #9 September 30th, 2004, 12:37 AM

Yes, good news but not nearly such a big deal as some people are making it out to be. This is a sub orbital flight. A true orbital mission needs to build up something like ten times the speed (= energy) of this flight. And then be able to bleed it off when returning! We're still a very long way from commercial manned space flight without government help.