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tahYEEEEAHH!!!
Jun 21, 2004
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The pilot reported 3 - 3.5 minutes of zero-g... for historical comparison: does anyone know the corresponding figure for the suborbital Mercury- Redstone flights?
-dave w
Shepard had 4:45 of weightlessness.
It took me a while to relocate the picture I found this weekend. It's an over the helmet shot from last months 41 mile flight. It is at (long URL):
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Meanwhile, a back of the flight card calculation puts the StarShipOne hybrid at just over 6M N-S making it a low end "W" class motor.
I'll bet there's a lot of Space Shuttle jockies down in Houston that wish they were in Mike Melvill's seat today.
Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!
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