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e2ipiand1
06-03-2004, 08:20 AM
Burt Rutan's set a June 21st launch date for SpaceShipOne.
Check out the full story at:
http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/New_Index/news/062104.htm

"This flight is one of the most exciting and challenging activities
taking place in the fields of aviation and aerospace today," said Paul
G. Allen, sole sponsor in the SpaceShipOne program. "Every time
SpaceShipOne flies we demonstrate that relatively modest amounts of
private funding can significantly increase the boundaries of commercial
space technology. Burt Rutan and his team at Scaled Composites have
accomplished amazing things by conducting the first mission of this kind
without any government backing."

--Paul G. Allen (financial backer of SpaceShipOne)
e2ipiand1
06-03-2004, 08:20 AM
Burt Rutan's set a June 21st launch date for SpaceShipOne.
Check out the full story at:
http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/New_Index/news/062104.htm

"This flight is one of the most exciting and challenging activities
taking place in the fields of aviation and aerospace today," said Paul
G. Allen, sole sponsor in the SpaceShipOne program. "Every time
SpaceShipOne flies we demonstrate that relatively modest amounts of
private funding can significantly increase the boundaries of commercial
space technology. Burt Rutan and his team at Scaled Composites have
accomplished amazing things by conducting the first mission of this kind
without any government backing."

--Paul G. Allen (financial backer of SpaceShipOne)
Turbulence
06-03-2004, 08:43 AM
This could really open the door for mass civillian space travel. It's one more step in the progression of travel as we know it, and it's really quite exciting to know that space travel for the masses is possible and attainable.

Just think...in a few years we could fly from Tokyo to New York in 3 hours in one of these things...
Turbulence
06-03-2004, 08:43 AM
This could really open the door for mass civillian space travel. It's one more step in the progression of travel as we know it, and it's really quite exciting to know that space travel for the masses is possible and attainable.

Just think...in a few years we could fly from Tokyo to New York in 3 hours in one of these things...
SouthernHockeyChick
06-03-2004, 09:42 AM
relatively modest amounts of
private funding

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Yeah, I just bet. Relative to whom, I wonder.
SouthernHockeyChick
06-03-2004, 09:42 AM
relatively modest amounts of
private funding

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Yeah, I just bet. Relative to whom, I wonder.
e2ipiand1
07-30-2004, 01:49 PM
Rutan and company have announced that they will launch on September 29th and October 13th in an effort to win the Ansari X Prize.

http://www.scaled.com