Re: [OT] Rutan makes 100km up!

Actually I think this does count as an official X-prize shot, although
they're apparently not going to try for a second shot right now.  The
X-prize specifies that the craft has to have room for 3 people, not that
they actually have to be aboard (although equivalent mass does have to
be).

This was discussed earlier today at TMP.

Bill

owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU wrote on 06/21/2004 04:33:36 PM:

> Cool aerospace news: Burt Rutan's SpaceShip One made it over 100km
> altitude early this morning in Mojave, California!
>
> Very cool - this isn't a XPrize shot - there weren't enough people in
the
> plane - but we're getting closer.
>
> www.scaled.com is Rutan's website, there's a few photos that I think
are
> from today's shot, but I don't have time to check now (work sucks...).
>
> This one is very cool:
> http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/photos/images/video/14p_1b.jpg
>
> The first private astronaut exists now - lucky bastard!
>
> Brian.
>
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