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SpaceShipOne Flight Completed Successfully

SpaceShipOne Flight Completed Successfully: “knothead99 writes “CNN is reporting the successful liftoff of SpaceShipOne from a runway in the Mojave desert. Around 10:30 EDT the craft will reach an …”

Coolness way to go! Rutan is the man, what an elegant looking bird!

(Via Slashdot.)

Private craft makes space history: “SpaceShipOne has flown into the history books as the first non-governmental manned craft to reach space.”

(Via BBC News.)

A New Frontier for Humanity:

It’s impossible to overstate the importance of this morning’s privately funded space flight by Mike Melvill, who piloted SpaceShipOne into a suborbital flight 100 kilometers high. Neil Armstrong took a giant step in 1969, but this was just as important. (Via Dan Gillmor’s eJournal.)

SpaceShipOne reaches space: “The suborbital RLV SpaceShipOne launched early Monday, and early reports indicate that the vehicle succeeded…”

(Via spacetoday.net.)