SpaceShipOne made it! - Page 4

mottlee · #31 October 4th, 2004, 02:07 PM

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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 · #32 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?.

mottlee · #33 October 4th, 2004, 08:07 PM

NO you could go like an Artty shell, up skip out then down no reason that you could not us ANY long runway

Kamog · #34 October 5th, 2004, 01:21 AM

I wonder if those other competitors will still go ahead with their flights, now that the X-Prize has been claimed by Scaled Composites? I thought there was another team in Canada who was going to use a balloon to launch their vehicle from... and many other teams as well.

Ragnarok · #35 October 5th, 2004, 10:48 AM

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Kamog said:
I wonder if those other competitors will still go ahead with their flights, now that the X-Prize has been claimed by Scaled Composites? I thought there was another team in Canada who was going to use a balloon to launch their vehicle from... and many other teams as well.

The article I read indicated that they would. Why? So that they could be the first in space from their respective countries... But for others in the US I don't know if they will continue or not.

Bill Door · #36 October 5th, 2004, 03:23 PM

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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?.

Why wait and pay for MS Space Simulator 2005 when you can get Orbiter now and for free? There is supposed to be a new Version coming out soon.

And yes, sub-orbital (aka, you get up there but don't go fast enough to make orbit) flights are a possible means of long distance flight.