[RCSE] YEEEEE---Haw!

[Tom H. Nagel]

I don't know if any of the rest of you were watching live webcast coverage this morning, but Space Ship One lifted off from Mojave Spaceport, cut loose from White Knight and lit the candle, in search of the X-Prize trophy.   Shortly after the engine fired, SS-1 pulled up vertical and then began a series of vertical axial rolls as it zoomed up to the boundary of space.  YEEEE-Haw!   You could have sworn Troy Lawicki or Jack Strother was at the controls.       Or me.  Because the vertical axial rolls were not planned.   Maybe not intentional, either.  Anyway, it was exciting, and all's well that ends in one piece. Tom H. Nagel Columbus, OH