Private Spacecraft

[Chemicalweapons]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/06/21/suborbital.test/index.html

My spaceboots are on and im ready to go !

[reptilian_storm]

Yeah, i saw this in the paper today, crazy bastards i hope it goes well for them, it could mean cheap/fast space travel for the rest of us eventually instead of these tired old planes we have ;)

[Viceroy]

Can we launch Shade into space? One way tickets are bound to be cheaper.

[DaIce72]

Can we launch Shade into space? One way tickets are bound to be cheaper.

Yeah but since you have a smaller brain (due to living in the U.K.) your ticket is bound to be even cheaper due to your lesser mass. (This was not in defense of Shade, more an attack on Viceroy).

Also, on topic, that is great news. I didn't even know about this until today. I personally think that the moon will become a very important part of our space program in the next fifty years. We need to set up a base there. It could be our gateway to the stars.

[Big D]

Private space travel...hope its inexpensive enough at some point during my lifetime, but I doubt it. That, or I hope I become filthy rich, and can shell out the big bucks for a ride. He described it as "close to a religious experience," and I don't doubt it.

I have a friends dad that still thinks we've never been to space, or landed on the moon. He thinks it was all filmed using special effects of something...and I doubt he'll believe this. At least he doesn't think the world is flat...

[reptilian_storm]

Well he got back ok :D

He said the view from 65miles up was amazing as it would be, he only had one complication and that was a large bang he heard on re entry, once the place of on the groud there was a peice of mangled metal, nothing major.


The X prize should already be his :D

[playoffpucks]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&e=5&u=/latimests/20040622/ts_latimes/privatespaceflightisapublicsuccess