The first private astronaut?

Joe Strout :

In article ,
Earl Colby Pottinger wrote:

(Steve Dufour) :

Space Race 2: Young pilot aims for space

By Irene Mona Klotz
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

Cape Canaveral, FL, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Thirty-year-old Larry Clark,
already an accomplished commercial airline pilot and flight
instructor, is in line to become one of the world's first private
astronauts.

Sorry, but that title already belongs to the pilot of SS1.

Read more carefully, and ignore the subject line added by Steve -- the
actual news story just talks of becoming "one of the first" -- after
Mike Melville and Brian Binney, of course. I'd say guy #3 would still
count as "one of the first" of this new breed of astronauts.

You are right, and I did read it, and still missed on my own.

Since this is nothing more than what SS1 has done what are they really
planning to do to claim a first?

They're claiming nothing of the sort.

No mention of orbital flights, seems to be a big write-up for someone we
don't even know yet if they will really fly.

Well, that's journalism for you. If it's a slow news day, you take
whatever story you have an write as much as is needed to fill the space.

Atleast private space flight is news, that is an improvement from the decade
before.

Earl Colby Pottinger


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On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 12:20:45 -0600, Earl Colby Pottinger
wrote:

instructor, is in line to become one of the world's first private
astronauts.
Sorry, but that title already belongs to the pilot of SS1.

The line states "ONE of the first" - not "THE first". :-)

Since this is nothing more than what SS1 has done what are they really
planning to do to claim a first?

Nothing in the article stated *anything* about claiming 'firsts'.
Just that they were continuing their efforts.

"Len Lekx" wrote in message
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On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 12:20:45 -0600, Earl Colby Pottinger
wrote:

instructor, is in line to become one of the world's first private
astronauts.
Sorry, but that title already belongs to the pilot of SS1.

The line states "ONE of the first" - not "THE first". :-)

Still silly. You're either First or not....



Since this is nothing more than what SS1 has done what are they really
planning to do to claim a first?

Nothing in the article stated *anything* about claiming 'firsts'.
Just that they were continuing their efforts.

On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 20:50:12 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:

Sorry, but that title already belongs to the pilot of SS1.
The line states "ONE of the first" - not "THE first". :-)
Still silly. You're either First or not....

Sooo... John Glenns' flight wasn't as significant as Yuri
Gagarins', because he wasn't "first"?

Of course, they could lay claim to being the first private
*Canadian* astronaut...

On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 19:20:21 -0500, Len Lekx
wrote:

On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 20:50:12 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:

Sorry, but that title already belongs to the pilot of SS1.
The line states "ONE of the first" - not "THE first". :-)
Still silly. You're either First or not....

Sooo... John Glenns' flight wasn't as significant as Yuri
Gagarins', because he wasn't "first"?

He was the first *American* into space, so he has a special place in
his countries history.

Of course, they could lay claim to being the first private
*Canadian* astronaut...

Christopher
+++++++++++
"Never take anything for granted."

Benjamin Disraeli

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 15:19:14 GMT, in a place far, far away,
Christopher made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Sooo... John Glenns' flight wasn't as significant as Yuri
Gagarins', because he wasn't "first"?

He was the first *American* into space, so he has a special place in
his countries history.

No, that was Alan Shephard. Glenn was the first American in orbit.

h (Rand Simberg) wrote in
:

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 18:33:24 GMT, in a place far, far away,
h (Rand Simberg) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

No, that was Alan Shephard. Glenn was the first American in orbit.

Sorry, that should be Alan Shepherd...

Shepard...

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 18:33:24 GMT, in a place far, far away,
h (Rand Simberg) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

No, that was Alan Shephard. Glenn was the first American in orbit.

Sorry, that should be Alan Shepherd...

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 12:34:37 -0600, in a place far, far away, Bill the
Cat made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way
as to indicate that:

(Rand Simberg) wrote in
t:

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 18:33:24 GMT, in a place far, far away,
h (Rand Simberg) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

No, that was Alan Shephard. Glenn was the first American in orbit.

Sorry, that should be Alan Shepherd...

Shepard...

D'oh!

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 18:33:24 GMT, h (Rand
Simberg) wrote:

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 15:19:14 GMT, in a place far, far away,
Christopher made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Sooo... John Glenns' flight wasn't as significant as Yuri
Gagarins', because he wasn't "first"?

He was the first *American* into space, so he has a special place in
his countries history.

No, that was Alan Shephard. Glenn was the first American in orbit.

That's what I said, into space, Shepard's sub orbital hop, can't be
considered as going into space.



Christopher
+++++++++++
"Never take anything for granted."

Benjamin Disraeli