SpaceShipOne X-Prize Flight 1

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Burt Rutan's ship makes its first (successful) attempt for the X-Prize.

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[powersurge91]

@envender The glare from the sun is too powerful for the camera's exposure settings, even setting them so low will not work. But to the human eye, you can see a lot of stars in space.

[DanielAvilaAGT]

@envender the glare from The Sun and Earth block the Star light. (star bright) kind like when the sun is out you can't see stars. But when it's night u can cause there no glare in the sky

[envender]

where ar the stars in the space ?? O_O,,,

[Simpson654]

@EinkOLED

Actually, the hydrogen/oxygen tank and the solid fuel booster rockets (think of hi-tech version of fireworks) both boost the orbiter up, the solid rockets are jettisoned just before the shuttle manouvers to increase it's speed around the earth, instead of just up. To achieve orbit you need a lot of thrust, and when the big orange-brown fuel tank is jettisoned, there's still some way to go. All the shuttle has is some manouvering fuel left, and fuel for de-orbit burn.

[Simpson654]

The first human space flight by Yuri Gagarin was a single orbit around the earth in his Vostok spacecraft, boosted up by a R7 ICBM rocket, the first US space flight was a suborbital one, that is John Glenn's Redstone ICBM rocket boosted him up, and he came down near his launch site. The difference is between airplanes and balloons. Gliders and balloons were known before powered flight, but the huge leap was powered flight. Like the USSR had human orbital flight way before the US.

[emancoy]

@EinkOLED well, it was just a climb and descend thing. thanks for answering

[EinkOLED]

No!!!

It was sub-orbital flight, meaning he climbed up to 200,000ft and then began the decent back to eath.

Orbital flight requires a longer fuel burn, the space shuttle requires burning the whole (brown) centre tank to achieve orbital flight.

In the climb when the air desnity lessons, the space shuttle pitches in a level climb to achieve a speed of nearly 23,000mph. Also the spaceshipone can't cope with air friction when slowing down at that velocity for a landing.

[emancoy]

how long did he stayed in space? did he orbited the earth?

[flyby7a]

I got the autographs of all these pilots that participated in this endevour.....

[0871356005]

the landing gear look like stabilizers on a bike. the rest looks awesome.