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Posted by Anthro (Member # 6087) on :

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MOJAVE, California (CNN) -- The man who became the first person to pilot a privately built craft into space called his flight "almost a religious experience" after his safe landing Monday morning.

CNN.com Story

*signs up for the first commercial flight*

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

Link and link .

Posted by CalvinMaker (Member # 2032) on :

Lol. And I was just about to post the same story.

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :

I saw the launch on CNBC before I had to go to work. [Cool]

Hobbes

Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :

I love you engineer geeks! My hubby has been following all this with great interest.

I think we should write poems about this.

Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :

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'If God wanted us to fly into space, he would have given us more money'.

What a great quote.

Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :

I'm really excited about this. I've always wanted to go into space, but it's unlikely I'll ever get into NASA's astronaut corps (my eyesight is really bad, among other things). But hey, if this works out they might start taking passengers up. If it's economical, we may someday buy space tickets like we buy plane tickets. One can only hope!

Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :

Dibs on the window seat! [Smile]

Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :

Without competition, nothing is efficent. Hopefully, private space sector will prove a strong market--mining, perhaps?

Posted by Mabus (Member # 6320) on :

I'm guessing that soon enough they'll be using these things or something like them to try asteroid mining. There are some nifty little boogers in near-Earth orbits.

Posted by Tammy (Member # 4119) on :

When do you think the average joe will be able to afford one?

*wishes to zip around in space*

Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :

This is awesome! And, now that it's also a commercial venture, progress will skyrocket I think (and hope).

I'm of a mind with Slash on things like this. Also in the news was a recent USSC decision about giving one's name to the police, which got much more attention (I noticed) than did this commercial spaceflight. Who'll remember what in fifty years?