SpaceShipOne News Coverage just a little rough on the edges

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 01:08:02 +0200 (CEST), Anonymous via the
Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote:

I am not an entomologist so don't come down on me if
anything in this post is off the beam.

You sure aren't. Entomology is about insects; etymology is about
words.

And you're wrong about the hell in helicopter, too.

Mary

--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer

Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote in message o...
Overall, pretty decent live event coverage. Nice aerial shots, in
particular. Background coverage was sparce. I would have like to see more
on the R & D history of the project.

But the announcers on CNN did err at least two times:

1. They prounounced Sputnik with a short, instead of the proper long "U".

2. They said SpaceShipOne won the prize when it succeeded in getting to
"outer" space. I do believe only the Voyager has made it to outer space,
which is really intersteller space, not the near space, which begins just
outside the Earth's atmosphere. SSO just kissed near space at best, since
there is still enough atmosphere at 100km to make orbital flight
problematic.


If that's all the mistakes they made, it's a miracle. The travelling
Space exhibit - http://www.spaceexhibit.com/ - which is currently in
St Louis, says that Gemini 6 and 7 DOCKED in space. Amazing!
--
Gene Seibel
Space Ship One - http://pad39a.com/gene/ss1.html
Because I fly, I envy no one - except Mike Melvill.