First Flight For SpaceShipTwo 190
mknewman writes "Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket plane took to the air for the first time this [Monday] morning from California's Mojave Air and Space Port. The craft, which has been christened the VSS Enterprise, remained firmly attached to its WhiteKnightTwo carrier airplane throughout the nearly three-hour test flight. It will take many months of further tests before SpaceShipTwo actually goes into outer space. Nevertheless, today's outing marks an important milestone along a path that could take paying passengers to the final frontier as early as 2011 or 2012."
Re:Space with no space (Score:4, Funny)
For an extra $50k, I am sure they would be willing to push you out into open space.
Who wants to start the collection?
They had to go and name it Enterprise... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:They had to go and name it Enterprise... (Score:5, Funny)
Please see this post [slashdot.org] for the answer.
Re:Space with no space (Score:5, Funny)
2 to the negative power of a phone number.
Better headline (Score:3, Funny)
A much better headline for the article would have been "Virgin spaceship gets its cherry popped".
Re:Better headline (Score:4, Funny)
Nah, the cherry will be popped when it actually gets up into space. This is more like a first kiss, with no tongue.
Re:They had to go and name it Enterprise... (Score:3, Funny)
Even more problematic -- now they have to go back and change all the Star Trek movies and episodes, where some cast member explains "all these vessels were named Enterprise". I know it happened in ST:TMP, and probably in at least one Next Gen episode...
They'll have to CGI in some other spaceships into the display. Heck, Star Trek violated it's own continuity by naming the NX-01 'Enterprise', when the NX-01 wasn't visible in the display in ST:TMP.
Ah... nevermind! It's just a frickin' TV show.
Re:Space with no space (Score:3, Funny)
It really is the biggest perk of working as a telephone operator...