THEY DID IT!!!
[Piloted by Brian Binnie] The carrier plane took off from a desert runway and the plane was released in midair and fired its rocket to continue on its own to an altitude of just over 62 miles - generally considered to be the point where the Earth's atmosphere ends and space begins. Richard Branson, the British airline mogul and adventurer, announced that beginning in 2007, he will begin offering paying customers flights into space aboard rockets like the SpaceShipOne. He plans to call the service Virgin Galactic.
USA! USA! USA! Individual! Capitalism! Perseverance! Freedom!! It's an historic day.
Posted by Claire on 10/04 at 04:24 AM
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