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One of the most cheering pieces of news has been the successful maiden flight of SpaceShipOne, a spacecraft entirely conceived and funded by private enterprise.(Brief Article)
* One of the most cheering pieces of news has been the successful maiden flight of SpaceShipOne, a spacecraft entirely conceived and funded by private enterprise. Astronaut Mike Melvill, who is a veteran civilian test pilot (and 63 years old), took SpaceShipOne to a height of 62 miles above the Mojave Desert, returning safely to earth. This was a suborbital flight, equivalent to Alan Shepard's 1961 trip into space. Shepard went higher, to 116 miles; but Melvill was technically in space, and enjoyed a brief spell of weightlessness. SpaceShipOne has been four years in development. It is mainly ...
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