A glimpse of SpaceShipOne's historic flights
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Members of the Mojave Aerospace Ventures team: (from left) Peter Diamandis, Paul Allen, Burt Rutan, pilot Brian Binnie and Richard Branson celebrate with champagne after SpaceShipOne's second suborbital flight in early October. [PHOTO CREDIT: AFP]
SpaceShipOne captured the $10 million Ansari X prize in early October when it made a second flight in less than a week to the edge of space. [PHOTO CREDIT: EFE]
Scaled Composites' White Knight, with SpaceShipOne nestled under its belly, on the runway at the Mojave Spaceport before takeoff. [PHOTO CREDIT: Jim Hu]
SpaceShipOne pilot Mike Melvill gives the thumbs up after a successful ride marked by a hair-raising roll 62 miles above Earth in late September. [PHOTO CREDIT: Jim Hu]
SpaceShipOne makes a test landing in September. [PHOTO CREDIT: Mojave Aerospace Ventures]
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I doubt that I will qualify age wise for a flight into space but someone I know will and know they will love it like I liked my first flight at 9 weeks in 1940.
Stephen Sanders
Rome, Italy
Internal clues indicate that you are about 64 years old. Michael Melvill, the pilot for the X1 flight, and the first civilian astronaut, is 63 years old.
Who knows. Maybe.
Richard
Wish it was me going!
The X prize should have included a requirement to land the craft at any International airport at least once. If we want space travel to be common place, we need to do the trials in a common way, from commercial airports.
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To my mind, that's the most impressive stunt.
Burt Rutan is the master of the creating aircraft that fit a specific purpose, perfectly.
He and his brother the greatest aircraft (and lately spacecraft ) designers in all human history.
actually happened though?
I seriously doubt it took place.
Personally I would love to believe in a space savvy world but
don't see the costs becouming trivial ever. Likewise the early
stage we are at today proves a moon shot and landing and then
return is clearly beyond humans. I gre up believing what my
Grandfather said and clearly cannot believe the moon has ever
been touched by a human. Sure maybe a tour out and back
maybe around the moon but no way was there ever a landing. I
am and Image effects professional who has made far more
convincing images of more outlandish things than a moon
landing. And i can reproduce any moon image from a blank
canvas in photoshop. Using @Alias models and Photoshop to
create the composite. Video and Film is equally manipulated. I
do it EVERY DAY.