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Rutan hits 200k feet! Almost there!
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May 15th 04, 08:39 AM
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From: "Steven P. McNicoll"
Date: 5/14/2004 9:53 PM Central Daylight Time
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"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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But it also doesn't mean that it *was* possible.
Since it didn't happen, then the burden of proof is on *your* side.
I thought I had already done that. The X-15 was turned in less than two
weeks and it flew above 100 km. Put those together and you've got a
spacecraft being reused in less than two weeks. If there was something to
be gained by actually flying it twice above 100 km within a two week period
it would have been done.
But it couldn't carry 3 people as the X-prize requires.
Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired
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