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06-22-2004, 02:05 AM
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First privately owned & operated spacecraft reaches space
SpaceShipOne became the first private-sector spacecraft to reach outer space on Monday.
Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5261571/?GT1=3584 The ship just barely made it into space (by 408 feet) and didn't stay there long. But, Orville and Wilbur Wright's first flight wasn't spectacular either. 
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06-22-2004, 01:26 PM
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Re: First privately owned & operated spacecraft reaches space
Hopefully, Dutch Boyd was on it.
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06-22-2004, 03:50 PM
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Re: First privately owned & operated spacecraft reaches space
What amazed me was that they could do it for a little over $20M. If it had been developed by a military contractor, you'd have to figure it would have cost ten times that at least.
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06-22-2004, 04:58 PM
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PRIVATELY funded?
You mean no taxpayer dollars were spent on this project?
Wow, the democrats aren't going to like that! [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] (first the Patriots go from the worst stadium in the NFL to the best stadium by building a state-of-the-art facility with no public financing, and now we have a privately funded spaceship. I don't know what this country is coming to...)
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