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

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, 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."

As a reminder, SpaceShipOne is supposed to take off tomorrow
morning at 6:30 PDT, or 13:30 UTC.  The mission's FAQ is here:

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/june21faq.htm

Rik
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