SpaceShipOne to Attempt Second Flight on Monday 314
m_member writes "There is a very cool video of the recent SpaceShipOne flight (on the Scaled video page) as covered by Slashdot. It shows some angles not on the webcast and most impressively has internal footage from when the roll occurred in the ascent. There are no M&Ms this time but Melville takes a few holiday snaps!" Gogo Dodo writes "After a successful first flight for the X Prize, SpaceShipOne is a go for launch to claim the X Prize on Monday. Takeoff is at 7am Pacific, ignition at 8am." October 4 will be the anniversary of the Sputnik launch.
Peter Diamandis was heard saying (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdotted! (Score:1, Funny)
Holiday snaps? (Score:4, Funny)
Photographs, ey? He asked him knowingly...
Heard they got a cypher lock on the space ship (Score:1, Funny)
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Flight Two Sponsored By... (Score:2, Funny)
ReliefBand [reliefband.com]: Nausea relief to go.
Come on guys, start caching stuff... (Score:4, Funny)
...with FreeCache [freecache.org] or Coral [nyu.edu].
Or just make it Slashdot-policy to use the past-tense when describing off-site content, like this:
Kind of pre-empts the whole /. effect, don't you think?
It would be great to start moving away from the whole organised-DDOS attack thing...
./ed already (Score:3, Funny)
"(sorry slashdot.org visitors, overloaded...start a bittorrent feed?)"
How did they know we were coming?
Re:Media Coverage (Score:5, Funny)
Media: "Can you please comment on the repeated rolls in which you kept rolling around and around and around in a dizzying, girating, spiraling, stomach-spinning fashion as if it would never end?" (making spinning hand-gestures)
Pilot: "Bwwaaaaarrrrrf" (splat)
Re:I wonder... (Score:4, Funny)
60 bucks and a couple of Jiffy-pop packages.
it's a little known secret that when you expose a Jiffy-pop package to microwave energy it's resulting expansion act's like a very powerful rocket.
The military took advantage of that side effect and used it to win a bar bet against the German V-II rocket engineers who said that they could not make it to space on popcorn power.
It's amazing what you discover about history using the freedom of information Act.
Re:Have we heard anything official... (Score:3, Funny)
He dropped his Snickers Bar on the floor, and had to feel around to find it. I have this problem all the time when I don't have a passenger to help me find my Snickers. Complicating the matter is that what is the "floor" changes when going into space. Never know where a Snickers can end up.
Re:Heard they got a cypher lock on the space ship (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Media Coverage (Score:3, Funny)
Could you at least *try* to keep which of the Rutan brothers is responsible correct? Burt Rutan designed and built SSO.
Dick Rutan is his brother who piloted Voyager around the world in 1986.
Once you get the cast of characters correct, then you can start to think about explaining aerospace engineering and control envelopes.