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To: LindyBill who wrote (38495)4/8/2004 10:10:00 AM
From: LindyBill  Respond to of 793958
 
Heinlein Would Be Proud
The FAA has just approved the first-ever license for a privately-owned manned rocket, to Burt Rutan at Scaled Composites. Rutan's SpaceShipOne is the odds-on favorite to win the X-Prize, to be awarded to the first private group to build and fly a reusable manned spacecraft (suborbital in this case, but it's a hell of a start).

I'll be out near Mojave in a couple of weeks. Hope I get a chance to check this sucker out while I'm there...http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/New_Index/photos/images/800/drop_ext_vid_800.jpg

Posted by Will Collier



To: LindyBill who wrote (38495)4/8/2004 2:00:39 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Respond to of 793958
 
...Justice Department's planned new obscenity crackdown.

You know the old saying, "Republicans in your bedroom and not in the boardroom".


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