SpaceShipOne made her maiden Voyage into 'outerspace'. Soaring to the height of 62.2 miles (99.52km). The man they picked to fly SpaceShipOne was Michael Melvill.
"The sky was jet black above, and it got very blue above the horizon," said pilot Michael Melvill, 63, who earned his wings as an astronaut and was greeted by Buzz Aldrin, one of the first men to walk on the moon.
"The earth is so beautiful," added Melvill in describing the planet's vast curvature and the Southern California coast he saw during a brief three and half minutes just beyond the atmosphere.
So the era of private space exploration officially started, as of Monday 21 June 2004.
It's a bit like a dream, really. I can't gush enough.
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While it is a fine line between Prostitution and Medicine, I knew there was a reason I shouldn't have left Med School. :)
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2 comments:
Well sure. I have heard very little clatter about making money actually. That is in the end the only way to make it sustainable but the point is to do it.
The way I see it, the first generation into space was a big scam. A Democratic Party machine in love with the Keynesian Aerospace industry and under the spell of the SOVIET Threat (TM).
The 'Right Stuff' was only so in as far as they made advertising billboards; hence the folly of the shuttle program.
But now, the desire is genuine as people in private enterprise are now specualting and buyilding machines for space. Now this deisre might not be exactly the best form of it, but it does have one thing going for it and it's genuine *interest*. I like that as a position.
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