SpaceShipOne DOES IT!

[filkertom]

I have to join in with everbody else.

EEEEEYAHOOOOOO!!!

Comments

[nuveena.livejournal.com]

WOOHOO!

[firedrake-mor.livejournal.com]

,,,and Bigelow Aerospace is almost set to offer a $50 million prize for a private orbital vehicle!

...Richard Branson has licensed the SS1 tech for passenger flights within 5 years (I've sent him a resume. I wan't a job)

...Perhaps the Space Age has truly begun!

Oh yeah, Tom: It has fins like a Cadillac!

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

*shaky laugh* Y'know, I thought of that too.

[knitmeapony.livejournal.com]

HOT DAMN.

I really wasn't sure it was going to manage!

[eleri.livejournal.com]

I watched the webcast, and cried like crazy.

[crwilley.livejournal.com]

Glad I'm not the only one getting choked up about this.

[kshandra]

I remember watching the footage of the Delta Clipper test flights with gridlore at ConFrancisco, holding one another and crying so hard we almost couldn't see the video - that is, until Jerry Pournelle grabbed the microphone on the podium and declared "This is spaceflight the way God and Robert Heinlein intended it to be!" Brought the house down, as you might imagine.

I'm sorry I didn't get to see the 'cast this morning.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I want you to know that ever since I heard the great news, the lyric "Come with me baby on a rocket ride" has been stuck in infinite loop in my head.

Yeeeeeeee-HHHHHAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Finally!

[skipjim.livejournal.com]

Anyone know how much the tickets for Virgin Galactic flights are going to cost? I've been hearing 30k - 200k (too much!!!!)

Re: Finally!

[zachkessin.livejournal.com]

Current guess is like $200,000

Yes thats a hell of a lot. However airliners cost a hell of a lot circa 1930 and prices came down over time. As the tech matures and more folks get into the act I expect that number will go down. It will probably still be expensive for a long time. Its a small ship and uses a lot of fuel etc. So it will be expensive to fly. But before this the only option to buy your way into space cost $20,000,000 so its getting better.

[lapislaz.livejournal.com]

I LURVE MY STARRY-NOSED SPACE SHIP!

We now return you to our regularly scheduled wackiness.

[holmes365.livejournal.com]

Woot!!!! Man if I wasn't at work, I would let myself bawl!!!

About damn time!

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

I'll happily add my own EEEEEYAHOOOOOO to the pot! WOO! :D

[ericthemage.livejournal.com]

So when's the SpaceShipOne filk song going to be written? :)

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Well, we do have "Bloody Bastards" (by Jordin Kare, if memory serves..)

Here's to Conestoga, Pegasus and Liberty
and all the rest who've joined us in the race
Oh we're proud of NASA's heroes, but we'd rather raise our glass
To the hard-nosed bloody bastards who will get us into space

[ericthemage.livejournal.com]

Maybe a follow up to Joe Ellis' "The Dream is Alive -- Music Of The Space Shuttles"?

[hms42]

Its already been written. There were a few over in rec.music.filk a while ago.

The one I like best was one from Terrance Chia based on Bill Sutton's Do It Yourself. He wrote a song where you could build a spaceship from the things you find at home. Someone chimed in with a suggestion for landing gear that made it even better.

I think that one would work with the You Can Build a Satelite by Jordin Kare to the same tune.

Harold S.

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

Sign me up, I wanna go!

Dayamn. This is the sort of thing that makes me wish I could write music, not just play it. :)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Hey. I didn't know jack about writing music when I started. Just go at it, be honest about whether or not something sounds too close to something else, and be ready to deep-six something that isn't working. You can do it, and I can't wait to hear it.

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

I think the only thing I've completed to-date was an ode to Stephen Ratliff to the tune of 'My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean'. Gotta start somewhere. :)

Me, I can't wait to hear what folks have come up with already for SS1, end of this month.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

How is ol' Ratliff, anyway? Still writing Marrissa stories?

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

So far as I know, yeah. I occasionally run into him on IRC, hanging out with the SVAM MSTies.

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

I can't bloody well believe that I forgot about both flights until they were over.

What happened to the college kid who sat in shock for hours in early 1986, glued to the tv in the lounge?

The next prize?

[wayward-va.livejournal.com]

The earlier post about $50million for an orbital vehicle is one possibility, but I'd like to suggest another.

One vehicle, pilot plus 5 passengers or equivalent weight, California to Australia suborbital flight. Turnaround and return to California, same vehicle, in 3 days.

Make that $20million. Call it 'double or nothing' for the X2 prize.:)

Thoughts?
-----wayward

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

YAY!

[james-rayner.livejournal.com]

Watching that...Just..*gropes for the words* I know, prehaps in some small way, what those people on one faithful day in June, must have felt.

And now that it has been proven to be possible, four words come to mind...

Let the Games Begin.

[isolde-deely.livejournal.com]

yay!

[dbcooper.livejournal.com]

To quote the black cowboys from City Slickers:

Yeeeee-HAA!