On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In a message dated 8/19/2009 12:09:52 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > I spent the day at the Air and Space Museum in DC yesterday. A sample > shot: > > http://chemistry.wlu.edu/~desjardins/ > > The X-1 got in the way a bit, but I couldn't get them to move it for me. > ============ > I like that. Been there, that is one interesting museum. > > But what the heck is Space Ship One? > > Marnie aka Doe >
SpaceShip One is the first commercial passenger spaceplane and the winner of the X Prize. It was designed and built by legendary aircraft designer Burt Rutan and became the first commercial spacecraft to lift botha human and (later) a paying passenger above the atmosphere. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
