06-21-2004, 08:02 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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First Private Space Flight - SUCCESS
The first privately financed, developed, and executed space flight occurred successfully today, albeit a very brief trip. Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne reached space and returned to Earth successfully after taking off in the Mojave desert (at the future site of the Mojave Desert Spaceport). It is an amazing feat in the world of space travel/exploration, and is especially good news now (along with the other recent X-Prize developments) with NASA's problems. You can find links and many insightful, and some not, comments at Slashdot. What does everyone here think about the recent X-Prize developments and the state of spaceflight in general now? There have to be a few other space fans in this forum....
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