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: Chris McKitterick (mckitterick) wrote,
2004-10-04 13:57:00

Chris McKitterick
mckitterick
2004-10-04 13:57:00

X Prize: It's official!

So I dragged my ass out of bed after only five hours of sleep (I know; don't do the math...) to watch SpaceShipOne make its second flight into SPACE! And it beat the X-15 for highest flight of a winged (non-Shuttle) craft! And and and! Coooooool!

Some good links re: this:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/index.html
http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/index.htm
http://www.virgingalactic.com/

Yay!

Welcome to the real Space Age.

Chris

Tags: the space age

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