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Old August 8th 03, 08:06 PM
Rand Simberg
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Default news flash! Rutan drops the shapceship!

On 8 Aug 2003 11:59:45 -0700, in a place far, far away,
(Tony Rusi) made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

anyone else have any details?

from hobbyspace.com

August 7, 2003

Successful SS1 drop test... Messages flying around the
net report that the SpaceShipOne, piloted by Mike
Melvill, was dropped today from the White Knight at
45k feet (~15km) and landed safely at Mojave. Videos
and pictures should appear eventually on the Scaled
site. Congratulations to the SS1 team!


Nothing about it at the Scaled web site.

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