making history

[siddacious]

Sunday evening, kattything and I drove down to Mojave,CA to witness the launch of the Scaled Composites Space Ship One, the world's first private space flight. Space Ship One is a rocket powered sub orbital spacecraft, that is launched at 46,000 feet from White Knight. SS1 then changes its wing configuration to slow descent (they call this feathering), and

Comments

[hippias_rex]

Not only am I jealous that you got to see the launch and I didn't, but I hate you even more.

[electricgecko]

Hmm. I just realized that I didn't post any of the floating-down pictures I took of SS1. (When I was reviewing mine, all the action shots just read as "gee, more gray specks on giant fields of blue" and I didn't even think to include later ones for the sake of completeness.) Oh well, you picked up my slack.

...but you didn't post the ARR WATER JUG picture. I want a copy. :D

[notorietie]

that's so cool that you were. awesome. maybe you can go up in the space elevator thing lol when they invent that (read an article about a guy estimating that it'd be built in 15 years). very awesome sidd, very awesome.

[notorietie]

err very awesome that you were there.. I have been really screwy lately, so if words are missing, just imagine they're there.

[primroseport]

I never saw this post! Awesome!

and:

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/index.php?e=paintball-moron.wmv