"B2431" wrote in message
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From: "Casey Wilson"

"Thomas J. Paladino Jr." wrote in message
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4970837/


Exciting stuff!

Rutan's SpaceShipOne hit 200,000 feet today over their Mojave test
site.

Won't be long now I guess.

Only 120,000 more feet straight up and they've made the first
qualifying flight for the $10 million X-Prize. The rumor I heard was
they
only put on half a load of propellant, today. My guess is they will go
all
out within two weeks.

Close, but no cigar. Besides the error in your math the X-prize requires
that 3
people be in the vehicle in both flights and that the flights be no more
than 7
days apart.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Is there any other group with comparable results or a "close second"?

Larry