Yeah, the NASA channel carried th elive webcast. It was cool. However, Burt
(actually a contemporary of mine at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo), has not
really developed a space ship. In the first flight, the pilot released a
handful of M&Ms to show no gravity. Well it was just in free fall, same as
the vomit comet 707 0f NASA. It is a great acheivement never the less and I
hope he wins the 10 million. The billionaire is Bill Gates co-founder.
On a different not, the guy I worked for a short while her in Las Vegas has
posted a 50 million dollar prize for any company that can deveklop and fly a
cheap system to carry people to and from his inflatable space station..
mayf, out in pahrump..
----- Original Message -----
From: <FastmetalBDF@aol.com>
To: <Want1937hd@aol.com>; <kturk@ala.net>; <land-speed@Autox.Team.Net>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 6:12 AM
Subject: Re: Whats going on out there?
> NO, Bob ! I watched the whole thing in live time
yesterday .
> Very Interesting Event opening up a whole new array of possibilites in
> Space.
> I did take notice that the Rutan boys have a billionaire on board
> backing
> their attempts at that prize ...... it does seem to help a little, either
in
> the air,
> or on the ground ........
>
> BDF
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