Private space ship captures the $10 million prize..

[Voyager13b]

From what I have heard in the news, the private effort sponsored by the Microsoft billionare partner met the rules of the challenge, and watched his home grown spacecraft make a suborbital date with the vaccuum of space twice in the alloted period of time.

Model rocketry has changed since I was a kid........




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[Booger]

We lazy, fast food eatin', crappy President havin', warmongerin' Americans have reached another milestone in the area of space travel. Damn! We suck!

[WizardOfUSA]

Originally posted by Booger
We lazy, fast food eatin', crappy President havin', warmongerin' Americans have reached another milestone in the area of space travel. Damn! We suck!

You Booger please leave the science forum and get out.

Stay in the open board area and discuss politics.

Science is not for you

[venator]

Wiz, I respectfully disagree, science is for everybody.

Lest Booger grow TOO exultant, I might remind him that the aging STS Space Shuttle has been HALVED by accidents with the loss of 14 higly trained astronauts and billions of dollars- only the Russians, thank God for them, can resupply the International Space Station at this time.

Still, it IS a triumph of daring, persistence, and Yankee ingenuity. and cause for all of us to celebrate.

I extend a hearty congratulations to Rutan's team and my best regards to all.

[venator]

Originally posted by Voyager13b
From what I have heard in the news, the private effort sponsored by the Microsoft billionare partner met the rules of the challenge, and watched his home grown spacecraft make a suborbital date with the vaccuum of space twice in the alloted period of time.

Model rocketry has changed since I was a kid........




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Voyager, I respectfully submit that this achievement belongs more to Rutan and those who built and flew the machine than to Mr. Moneybags.

[WizardOfUSA]

Originally posted by venator
Wiz, I respectfully disagree, science is for everybody.

Lest Booger grow TOO exultant, I might remind him that the aging STS Space Shuttle has been HALVED by accidents with the loss of 14 higly trained astronauts and billions of dollars- only the Russians, thank God for them, can resupply the International Space Station at this time.

Still, it IS a triumph of daring, persistence, and Yankee ingenuity. and cause for all of us to celebrate.

I extend a hearty congratulations to Rutan's team and my best regards to all.

OK Venator, I respect your wishes. Booger can stay as long as he keeps the scientific discussions sensible

Wishing you all the best in Science and health

[Voyager13b]

Originally posted by venator

Voyager, I respectfully submit that this achievement belongs more to Rutan and those who built and flew the machine than to Mr. Moneybags.

I agree 100%. Rutan has been on the leading edge of "better, cheaper, safer" aircraft technology since I was a kid, with many of his designs built by hobbyists, and continuing to fly today. I give Mr. Allen credit for funding a worthwile effort though. He could have just went out and bought a new yacht.

I wonder what the next challenge will be? Orbiting the Moon, and returning safe and sound to Earth? Maybe private funding of thinkers and doers who can now only look inside NASA from the tourist gallery will prove to be the key to future leaps in space exploration.

Of course, if private efforts are successful in a meaningful way, the "regulators" will come out of the woodwork and quickly put them in their place.......


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