SpaceShipOne's exciting flight a success

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Craig Fink - 29 Sep 2004 16:52 GMT

Wow, some excitement during the flight of SpaceShipOne as it rolls out of
control exiting the atmosphere. Besides that, the flight appeared to go
well.

Congratulations,

Craig Fink

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Brian Gaff - 30 Sep 2004 08:48 GMT

I think they have some issues with control on the interface between
atmosphere and space. Interesting.

I would imagine it might make a person somewhat queasy!

Brian

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> Wow, some excitement during the flight of SpaceShipOne as it rolls out of
> control exiting the atmosphere. Besides that, the flight appeared to go
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> Craig Fink

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Craig Fink - 30 Sep 2004 11:03 GMT

lol, I imagine your right. Rotating passengers at 60 RPM wouldn't quite be
considered zero gees. But remember what the purpose of the craft is.

One, to win the X-prize. Now they are half way there. From the beginning,
Scaled Composites said this vehicle was for development purposes and they
weren't going to sell rides on it. I really haven't read too much on what
Scaled Composites new agreement is, with respect to selling rides, but I
can imagine it's for a bigger vehicle with more passengers. Version 2.

Two, it's a learning experience for a totally new design concept. Which
this definitely was. It's already broken the X-15's altitude record. It
will be interesting to see if they fly within two weeks.

I think they will,

Craig Fink

> I think they have some issues with control on the interface between
> atmosphere and space. Interesting.
>
> I would imagine it might make a person somewhat queasy!
>
> Brian

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Patty Winter - 01 Oct 2004 19:55 GMT

>From the beginning,
>Scaled Composites said this vehicle was for development purposes and they
>weren't going to sell rides on it. I really haven't read too much on what
>Scaled Composites new agreement is, with respect to selling rides, but I
>can imagine it's for a bigger vehicle with more passengers. Version 2.

I haven't found any information on the Virgin Galactic web site
(http://www.virgingalactic.com/) about how many passengers their
craft will hold, but they are saying that they will be bigger than
SpaceShipOne. They expect to have the design finalized by early
next year, so we should hear something fairly soon.

Patty

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Iain Young - 01 Oct 2004 21:21 GMT

> I haven't found any information on the Virgin Galactic web site
> (http://www.virgingalactic.com/) about how many passengers their
> craft will hold, but they are saying that they will be bigger than
> SpaceShipOne. They expect to have the design finalized by early
> next year, so we should hear something fairly soon.

According to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3693020.stm it will
hold 5 passengers.

Don't know how many crew, although the article does compare the VSS
Enterprise's 5 passenger capability with SpaceShipOne's "2", so I'm
guessing that they mean 6 people on board.

Of course, It wouldn't suprise me, if for regular passenger trips,
the authorities insist on at least two crew...

Iain

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Jose Pina Coelho - 20 Oct 2004 01:36 GMT

> [...]
> According to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3693020.stm it will
> hold 5 passengers.
>
> Don't know how many crew,

1 pilot + 1 ex-marine with a tranquilizer gun in case the passengers object
to the spin-dry cycle.

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Nomen Nescio - 26 Dec 2004 21:30 GMT

I love the use of the TV space opera term "blast off."

Right out of Tom Corbett's Space Rangers.

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SpaceShipOne's exciting flight a success