Hatrack River Forum: It's Good!

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Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :

Yes! Private industry slips the bonds of gravity!

Linky!

[The Wave]

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

Excellent. I saw they were planning to go today and figured someone here would keep us updated. Were there 3 people in that or only one? Is the X-prize imminent?

Dagonee

Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :

John Carmack's got some impressive VTOL stuff going on with his, but Rutan's design, unsurprisingly, looks to be the front runner...

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

There was only one. This was the "test" flight. The next one will be weighted to account for two passengers.

Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :

There was live coverage on my radio station this morning. (KFOG, SF) Sounded cool!

This totally rocks!

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

Actually, it didn't slip the bonds of gravity -- it just escaped the atmostphere. It didn't get fast enough even to orbit -- let alone escape the gravity well.

Still, [Cool]

[ June 21, 2004, 02:46 PM: Message edited by: mr_porteiro_head ]

Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :

You are, of course, correct.

But the poetry....

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

So cool!

Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :

Wow. This seems to be very well received by the press! In a very positive manner too!

Does this mean that the people would like this direction to follow, or is it just that the news has been so bad lately?

Oh, well. I'll take it!