View Full Version : What an achievement !!!!
drakkie
06-20-2004, 01:44 AM
Monday 21st of june the first not-governement spacship is to be launched into space.It is designed by the team f Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites.It is an awesome achievement!!When they succesfullylaunch it, they have written history !!!I wish them the best of luck !!
Edit: . i'll add some pics of the craft and the carrierplane
Matra et Alpine
06-20-2004, 03:34 AM
Monday 21st of june the first not-governement spacship is to be launched into space.It is designed by the team f Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites.It is an awesome achievement!!When they succesfullylaunch it, they have written history !!!I wish them the best of luck !!
Edit: . i'll add some pics of the craft and the carrierplane
For sure.
I *LOVE* Rutan's designs, he always manages to make the functional look fantastic :)
The Tuner
06-20-2004, 06:06 AM
Monday 21st of june the first not-governement spacship is to be launched into space.It is designed by the team f Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites.It is an awesome achievement!!When they succesfullylaunch it, they have written history !!!I wish them the best of luck !!
didnt hear abt this b4 today, but u rite....it is an awesome achievment.
any idea wat its gona be doin up there?
Matra et Alpine
06-20-2004, 06:16 AM
shot of the test rocket firing up ...
http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/images/press-release-graphics/june21-13p_boost_alpha.jpg
and LOTS more info and keep up to date at Scaled Composites web site
www.scaled.com
I'll be checking it hourly on the day to see if they keep us up to date.
I'd really like Rutan's designs to be the winner of the prize - even though there's a British team trying for it too - they've had trouble getting the British Lelyand badge to stay on though :)
Lots of details of the craft and equipment in hiQ inages at http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/info.htm
Matra et Alpine
06-20-2004, 06:52 AM
oh, look, every ricers dream :)
http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/data_sheets/html/images/Posterboard---MONODS_01.jpghttp://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/data_sheets/html/images/Posterboard---MONODS_02.jpg
http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/data_sheets/html/images/Posterboard---MONODS_03.jpghttp://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/data_sheets/html/images/Posterboard---MONODS_04.jpg
SPHFerrari
06-20-2004, 10:40 AM
scaled composites must be a filthy rich company to be able to afford to build a spaceship.
R34GTR
06-20-2004, 01:13 PM
Now that's what I call a company Jet :D
Matra et Alpine
06-20-2004, 01:37 PM
scaled composites must be a filthy rich company to be able to afford to build a spaceship.
Well there's a $10M prize for being the first private venture into space.
THEN there are the potential sales of 'craft to rich folks.
Rutan has made his fortune(s) by designing and building strange planes and making a few for VERY rich people :)
The for ScaledComposites, anyone contemplating building anything similar is likely going to come to them for engineering data and development assistnace.
IIRC, there were originally 2 companies COMPETING last year to provide the engines. They kneow the chosen engine would probably seal the fortune fo the supplier :)
Along the way, I suspenct Rutan and SC to have tied up patents on making this craft whichi again they can take advantage of financially.
SPHFerrari
06-20-2004, 01:50 PM
who is giving out the reward?
Matra et Alpine
06-20-2004, 01:58 PM
who is giving out the reward?
It's a busnessman and consortiou - including St Louis city as a celetbration of the "spirit".
Old info on it at http://www.kilnet.freeserve.co.uk/earthxprize.htm
A search for X-Prize will likely bring up more.
drakkie
06-22-2004, 02:55 AM
scaled composites must be a filthy rich company to be able to afford to build a spaceship.
First of all there is the X-prize matra talked about.
Second of all Paul Allen , one of the people that started microsoft, funds the project with a lot of money
drakkie
06-22-2004, 02:56 AM
BTW. THEY DID IT :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Well done all you guys
Egg Nog
06-22-2004, 02:02 PM
Just in case anyone didn't know, this Spacecraft is basically a pet project of Paul Allen (Microsoft). Despite the $10,000,000 prize, they've already put over $20,000,000 into development. Kind of puts the others (some with piggy-banks under 1 million) in the shadows...
Money is crazy stuff...
Matra et Alpine
06-22-2004, 02:50 PM
Just in case anyone didn't know, this Spacecraft is basically a pet project of Paul Allen (Microsoft). Despite the $10,000,000 prize, they've already put over $20,000,000 into development. Kind of puts the others (some with piggy-banks under 1 million) in the shadows...
Money is crazy stuff...
It's been Rutan's dream for a lot longer, I think he may have roped Allen in to help fund it for the offer of an early flight :)
Paul Allen is the kind of millionaire (billionaire, I assume) that I like. He doesn't have any problem with spending loads of money to follow his hobbies. He doesn't really walk all over people. And he shares his hobbies with others. I visited the Experience Music Project in Seattle last year - another one of his pet projects. It's amazing.
http://www.emplive.com/
EDIT: WRONG URL BEFORE
crisis
06-22-2004, 05:23 PM
Who actually sat in the bomb?
Matra et Alpine
06-22-2004, 05:30 PM
Who actually sat in the bomb?
pilot Mike Melville.
Seemed non-plussed when explaing some damage the craft experienced in the re-entry !!!!
Links were posted earlier, but for the lazy :) ... http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/062104-2.htm
crisis
06-22-2004, 05:49 PM
pilot Mike Melville.
Seemed non-plussed when explaing some damage the craft experienced in the re-entry !!!!
Links were posted earlier, but for the lazy :) ... http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/062104-2.htm
Thanks. I breifly skimmed the thread as I have been away for a week. I only have so long to live you know. :)
pilot Mike Melville.
Seemed non-plussed when explaing some damage the craft experienced in the re-entry !!!!
Links were posted earlier, but for the lazy :) ... http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/062104-2.htm
Mike Melville is from my state. :)
Egg Nog
06-22-2004, 09:00 PM
Paul Allen is the kind of millionaire (billionaire, I assume) that I like. He doesn't have any problem with spending loads of money to follow his hobbies. He doesn't really walk all over people.
I heard that he was vacationing on his 330' yacht when he arrived at a port that refused to dock such a massive boat. Apperenntly he went to shore, bought the entire docking facility, and then moored there...
SPHFerrari
06-22-2004, 09:27 PM
haha that would be soooo cool. i wish i was that rich so i could do things like that.
I heard that he was vacationing on his 330' yacht when he arrived at a port that refused to dock such a massive boat. Apperenntly he went to shore, bought the entire docking facility, and then moored there...
I wouldn't really consider that walking all over people. That's just using your resources to your advantage. :) He had to have given them a fair amount or they wouldn't have sold it.