SS1 flight set for June 21

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches...te_040602.html

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Hop David wrote:

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Hot damn! The X-Prize will be won in less than three weeks. This will
be a historic occasion.

More details (from spacetoday.net):

"SpaceShipOne... will fly into space for the first time on Monday, June
21, the company announced Wednesday. SpaceShipOne will fly to an
altitude of at least 100 kilometers, a widely-accepted boundary of
space, on the flight. ... The pilot of SpaceShipOne on this flight will
be announced at a later date; Brian Binnie and Mike Melvill have both
flown SpaceShipOne on powered test flights previously. ... Wednesday's
announcement is a break in the tight veil of secrecy that has surrounded
the program during its development and previous test flights, which have
not been previously announced to the public. Scaled said the public will
be invited to witness this flight."

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In article ,
Joe Strout wrote:

Hot damn! The X-Prize will be won in less than three weeks. This will
be a historic occasion.

Correction: they won't be quite winning the X-Prize on June 21; to do
that, they have to fly twice in two weeks. But I think we're all agreed
that this will be pretty much a formality after the 100 km flight.

Best,
- Joe

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Joe Strout wrote:

In article ,
Hop David wrote:

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches...te_040602.html

Hot damn! The X-Prize will be won in less than three weeks. This will
be a historic occasion.

Nope. The June 21 attempt will not meet the requirements of an
X-Prize flight.

D.
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In article ,
says...
In article ,
Hop David wrote:

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches...te_040602.html

Hot damn! The X-Prize will be won in less than three weeks. This will
be a historic occasion.

No, if the June 21 date holds, the X Prize will be won in no more than
five weeks. You don't win the prize until/unless you make a second
flight within two weeks of the first flight.

Doug

In article ,
says...
In article ,
Joe Strout wrote:

Hot damn! The X-Prize will be won in less than three weeks. This will
be a historic occasion.

Correction: they won't be quite winning the X-Prize on June 21; to do
that, they have to fly twice in two weeks. But I think we're all agreed
that this will be pretty much a formality after the 100 km flight.

Damn, I knew I should have read your follow-up before posting, LOL...

Doug

In article ,
Joe Strout wrote:

In article ,
Joe Strout wrote:

Hot damn! The X-Prize will be won in less than three weeks. This will
be a historic occasion.

Correction: they won't be quite winning the X-Prize on June 21; to do
that, they have to fly twice in two weeks. But I think we're all agreed
that this will be pretty much a formality after the 100 km flight.

Best,
- Joe


Actually, no. They have to do it with triple the payload: three people,
not just one pilot. And they have to do it again within two weeks, not
a month or two (or three) between each flight.

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Herb Schaltegger, B.S., J.D.
Reformed Aerospace Engineer
Columbia Loss FAQ:
http://www.io.com/~o_m/columbia_loss_faq_x.html

Derek Lyons wrote:
Joe Strout wrote:
Hot damn! The X-Prize will be won in less than three weeks. This will
be a historic occasion.

Nope. The June 21 attempt will not meet the requirements of an
X-Prize flight.

Perhaps it's just sloppy wording on your part but this is
an incorrect statement. The X-Prize involves two flights,
if the June 21st flight is the first of a pair of flights
meeting the X-Prize requirements then it would indeed be
an X-Prize flight. Aside from the flying within two weeks
criterion, the flight certainly looks to meet all the other
X-Prize requirements.

On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 18:23:42 -0500, "Christopher M. Jones"
wrote:

Derek Lyons wrote:
Nope. The June 21 attempt will not meet the requirements of an
X-Prize flight.

Perhaps it's just sloppy wording on your part but this is
an incorrect statement. The X-Prize involves two flights,
if the June 21st flight is the first of a pair of flights
meeting the X-Prize requirements then it would indeed be
an X-Prize flight. Aside from the flying within two weeks
criterion, the flight certainly looks to meet all the other
X-Prize requirements.

I haven't seen any mention of the required passengers for the June
21st flight. In fact the press release states: "Based on the success
of the June space flight attempt, SpaceShipOne will later compete for
the Ansari X Prize" which, at least to me, implies that this flight
does not contribute towards the X Prize contest. Therefore, Derek
would seem to be correct?

July 4th is within two weeks of June 21st. FYI.