Man into space!

[hjalfi]

In case anybody who cares is unaware, on Monday Scaled Composites, a privately-funded aerospace company based in the US, is going to try to put a man into space.
Assuming everything goes well --- and given their track record, it probably well --- it will be the first time ever that a purely civilian aircraft has gone higher than 100km.
The

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Thank you!

[bardling]

...for passing on the news. I wuldn't have know otherwise, and the links are really interesting, too! Aside fromt he manned spaceflight - the Boomerang is just cool! (has visions of reviving a character concept from a StarWars character that didn't get played more than once in Shadowrun/Cyberpunk or similar owning/flying one of those ;)

*hugs*

[hrrunka]

...also see photos here:

http://www.mojavebooks.com/mhv/index.html

...and pay particular attention to the slightly less than smooth landing in the entry for December 17th 2003:

http://www.mojavebooks.com/mhv/031217-1.html

[hjalfi]

Woah. Slightly more serious than they made it seem from the mission reports...

Nice site, by the way. I'll keep track of it.

[hrrunka]

Well, one skid collapsed, so it slewed off the runway and into the dust, but it seems to have come out of it with no more than a few scratches. While it ended up in the dust, it was still the right way up and in one piece, so it probably still counts as a "good" landing... ;)