Space Ship one Powered Final Flight part 1

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Uploaded by on Oct 11, 2010

Test pilot Michael Melvill took SpaceShipOne to the altitude of 62.5 miles (100 km) above the Earth's surface. Flying to this altitude officially makes Melvill an astronaut.
SpaceShipOne and White Knight took off at 9:45 EST, and SpaceShipOne was released from White Knight at around 50,000 feet. After a few seconds of freefall, Melvill fired SpaceShipOne's hybrid rocket motor for 80 seconds, propelling him into space for three minutes. SpaceShipOne landed safely just over an hour after it took off.

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  • Sweet

  • Must be nice to employ all those men for years AS A HOBBY for Paul Allen.Now THAT'S RICH. lol I used to watch Allen&Gates sell their Microsoft stock in the Hundreds of Millions MONTHLY & then just have more stock issued in their own names again&again&again ad infinitem.Must be nice.After awhile they had more stock in this "public company" than they ever had in the beginning.TALK ABOUT PONZI SCHEMES. They perfected that name LEGALLY.

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