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Posted by tourdemars to General News at October 4, 2004 09:47 AM
Human flight took a significant step forward today as the privately built SpaceShipOne flew into suborbital space for the second time in five days, securing the $10 million Ansari X Prize. With pilot Brian Binnie at the controls, SpaceShipOne rocketed to an unofficial height of 368,000 feet, setting a new altitude record for the craft and proving that private industry can build a viable vehicle for sending paying passengers to space. "This is a milestone for humanity," said John Spencer, president of the Space Tourism Society in Los Angeles.TrackBack URL for this entry:
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Well congratulation to SpaceShipOne and to Its owners for having achieved the goal. But to all thoses that have partial or nearly complete vehicles keep going.
We all know the direction that SpaceShipOne and the free enterprise industry has in store with the announcement of virgin getting into the space flight game.
Also there is the announcement of the http://www.xpcup.com/ to continue on the excitement of the xprize in the coming year.
In addition we have the Bigelow LEO prize still of which they are ironing out the prize amount and looking for more funds to go with his pridged amount of 25 million.
Posted by: Harold_LaValley at October 4, 2004 09:59 AM
Congrats to pilot Brian Binnie, SpaceShipOne and Scaled Composites for winning the Ansari X-Prize. I watched it live of course. It was remarkable.
Posted by: russ at October 5, 2004 11:38 AM