[extropy-chat] SPACE: Private spacecraft blast offs June 21

[Harvey Newstrom]

On Wednesday, June 2, 2004, at 02:31 pm, natashavita at earthlink.net 
wrote:

> "The pilot of the craft, still to be announced, will become the first
> person to earn astronaut wings in a non-government sponsored vehicle, 
> and
> the first private civilian to fly a spaceship out of the atmosphere."
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/06/02/private.space/index.html

Now that's something to cheer me up about the abysmal state of our 
space program!  Maybe we are back on track to becoming a space-faring 
species.

--
Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, CISA, CISM, IAM, IBMCP, GSEC
<HarveyNewstrom.com>