Spaceship Two Receives Experimental Certificate

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Spaceship Two Receives Experimental Certificate

8년 전 제출됨

SpaceShipTwo, a six-passenger commercial spaceship owned by Virgin Galactic, has been cleared by the Federal Aviation Administration to begin test flights beyond the atmosphere. Spaceship builder Scaled Composites received an experimental launch permit from the FAA on May 23. (news.discovery.com) 기타...

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Brian Bishop 8년 전 4

"Iiiiii just waaant to fly.....higher higher higher....."
(Apologies to Sugar Ray)

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Toby Sharp 8년 전 3

LOL....you are such a dork! thats hilarous!

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Brian Bishop 8년 전 3

Lol.... little levity - dorky or not - never hurt anybody! Who says Flightaware can't be entertaining?

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AviatorLEO 8년 전 2

Then add me to the list with Lenny Kravitz ... "Oh ... I want to get away ... I want to flyyyyy away! Yeah, yeah yeah!" Or, Frank Sinatra's "Fly me to the moon!"=D

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Brian Bishop 8년 전 1

Somebody used the Lenny Kravitz song in a commercial once, didn't they?

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floatplaneS7 8년 전 2

But doesn't just a tiny bit of you want to yell out the same :-) LOL

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zennermd 8년 전 2

Want to... I already did.

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CyranoSmith 8년 전 3

"Where never Sparrow, or even Eagle flew ..." - apologies for any inaccurate quote from "High Flight" - I'd love to reach out and touch the Face of God, myself.

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Bernie20910 8년 전 1

And where Eagle has already flown.

"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."

July 20, 1969

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duckboy81 8년 전 1

I believe it's "where never lark, or even eagle flew"

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Gregory Henderson 8년 전 2

Great! Now all I need is $200,000.00 and airfare to the spaceport.

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Charles Hessler 8년 전 1

What a week for space!! Save your money and buy stock in VirginGalactic and SpaceEx. We are witnessing the birth of two new industries that will never die off - passenger and cargo businesses in space.

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Donald Brockhaus 8년 전 1

Just let me hit the Mega Million and I'm all over this !

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frank1711 8년 전 1

(Duplicate Squawk Submitted)

FAA clears Virgin Galactic spaceship for test flights

* License is good for one year
* Only test pilots can fly, for now
* Virgin Galactic selling suborbital rides for $200,000
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has cleared SpaceShipTwo, a commercial six-passenger spacecraft owned by Virgin Galactic, to begin rocket-powered suborbital test flights, the company said on Wednesday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/30/usa-spaceship-virgin-idUSB47076320120530?feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssHealthcareNews&rpc=43

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floatplaneS7 8년 전 1

Looks fantastic, well done

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G. Kent 8년 전 -1

Great, I applaud the ingenuity, creativity and imagination which has gone into this project so far, but....

Isn't it about time Mr. Rutan et al started putting some of that ingenuity and creativity into something more worthwhile than (not so) cheap carnival thrill rides for people with a lot more money than they know what to do with? Even if I had that kind of money I still wouldn't be interested because I grew up a long time ago.

I'm talking about sub-orbital flights here. How about a ship that could actually go somewhere and do something useful, such as say, flights from one end of the continent to the other, or even inter-continental flights in a few minutes - how's that for a wild concept? Ya, ya, I know all about the heating effects and the rest of the technical problems, but it seems to me that would be a far, far better goal to pursue, a challenge worthy of his skills and full attention.

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