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bill Donating Member (333 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 10:10 AM
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They had to break 100 km (62 mi). Looks like they did it
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  -X-Prize WON!!!! Wilber_Stool  Oct-04-04 10:03 AM   #0 
  - Awesome  tridim   Oct-04-04 10:08 AM   #1 
  - 360,000 +  bill   Oct-04-04 10:10 AM   #2 
  - Oops.___n/t  Wilber_Stool   Oct-04-04 10:23 AM   #3 
  - How do these compare with Shepard/Grissom sub orbital flight?  Jack from Charlotte   Oct-04-04 12:31 PM   #10 
     - Shepard and Grissom flew higher  GliderGuider   Oct-04-04 01:18 PM   #16 
        - Let's also not forget Lucky Lindy  Emperor_Norton_II   Oct-04-04 04:17 PM   #29 
        - Shepard and Grissom flew in a spacecraft not an aircraft.  LastDemocratInSC   Oct-04-04 10:26 PM   #41 
  - Another feather in the cap of Burt Rutan (EE),  Dudley_DUright   Oct-04-04 10:48 AM   #4 
  - That's great, now how can he engineer a car  MsUSA   Oct-04-04 11:14 AM   #6 
  - It even beat the X-15 flight altitude record!  GliderGuider   Oct-04-04 11:03 AM   #5 
  - Apples and oranges compared  LastDemocratInSC   Oct-04-04 09:48 PM   #37 
  - Okay, I have questions about this  LisaM   Oct-04-04 11:59 AM   #7 
  - I suppose this is just proof of concept  daleo   Oct-04-04 12:25 PM   #8 
  - OBL?  GliderGuider   Oct-04-04 12:44 PM   #12 
     - Whether or not the risk is reasonable is a moot point, nowadays  daleo   Oct-04-04 02:06 PM   #18 
        - A Cessna 172 has a bigger payload  GliderGuider   Oct-04-04 02:22 PM   #20 
  - Here are a few answers  GliderGuider   Oct-04-04 12:39 PM   #11 
  - Rockets are designed so in a way that the thrust is used to maximum extent  Massacure   Oct-04-04 03:33 PM   #26 
  - Answers....  tinrobot   Oct-04-04 04:40 PM   #32 
     - This is wonderful  RadioFlyer   Oct-04-04 09:16 PM   #33 
  - Mass Produce NOW.  kemche   Oct-04-04 12:30 PM   #9 
  - Buy stock in Virgin Galactic airways!  GliderGuider   Oct-04-04 12:53 PM   #13 
  - the plan is a $200,000 ticket can be purchased in 3 yrs  Ohio rules   Oct-04-04 09:34 PM   #36 
  - You might want to wait and find out the odds of your survival  LastDemocratInSC   Oct-04-04 10:23 PM   #40 
  - Glad I am alive to see this...  HereSince1628   Oct-04-04 12:56 PM   #14 
  - Apples and oranges ... redux  LastDemocratInSC   Oct-04-04 10:55 PM   #42 
     - Yes but its more like comparing pick-up trucks and trains  HereSince1628   Oct-05-04 03:59 AM   #43 
  - Great  Mr.Green93   Oct-04-04 01:13 PM   #15 
  - Don't you find it ironic  MUSTANG_2004   Oct-04-04 02:16 PM   #19 
  - Not really  daleo   Oct-04-04 02:28 PM   #21 
  - I don't think we need to worry  GliderGuider   Oct-04-04 02:33 PM   #23 
     - That's what I thought about SUV's at first  daleo   Oct-04-04 02:43 PM   #24 
  - ouch  Mr.Green93   Oct-04-04 02:46 PM   #25 
  - I read something on this yesterday  Jacobin   Oct-04-04 04:24 PM   #31 
  - Burt Rutan is a national treasure  Jacobin   Oct-04-04 01:31 PM   #17 
  - His home built aicraft industry reached the ultimate height  Ohio rules   Oct-04-04 09:32 PM   #35 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Oct-04-04 02:30 PM   #22 
  - EXACTLY!!!  shylock1579   Oct-04-04 04:20 PM   #30 
  - This is very, very cool...  Greyhawk   Oct-04-04 03:39 PM   #27 
  - IMO this is even cooler...  GliderGuider   Oct-04-04 04:02 PM   #28 
  - Apples and oranges ...  LastDemocratInSC   Oct-04-04 10:12 PM   #39 
  - NASA's Space Shuttle is a cash cow  Ohio rules   Oct-04-04 09:29 PM   #34 
     - NASA never wanted the shuttle to become the beast it is  LastDemocratInSC   Oct-04-04 09:58 PM   #38 
 

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