Thread: Scaled gets FAA AST license for manned suborbital flights
View Single Post
  #3  
Old April 8th 04, 06:22 PM
Henry Vanderbilt
external usenet poster
  
Posts: n/a
Default Scaled gets FAA AST license for manned suborbital flights
And Scaled has now used that license - SS1 flew this morning.
Early reports are 105,000 feet altitude and a 35 second motor
burn time, and back on the ground safely.

The first flight of a licensed manned private spaceship.

Henry Vanderbilt wrote:

FAA AST issued a launch license covering manned suborbital flights
of Scaled Composites' SpaceShip One, as of the first of April.
http://www.faa.gov/apa/pr/pr.cfm?id=1833