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Congrats to Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites
My congratulations to visionary Burt Rutan, pilots Brian Binnie and Mike Melville and the entire team at Scaled Composites on their historic flight into space and into history. May your success be the first of many equally successful steps by Rutan and other enterprising venturers in their trek off of Earth, the cradle of our civilization and into the grand vastness of our solar system.

One point: the last time I looked, the project was envisioned, designed, delivered and successfully delivered by Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites. Paul Allen may have, in large, funded the venture. To describe Rutan's Space Ship One as "Paul Allen's Mojave Aerospace Venture craft" is stretching Allen's contribution a bit.

Three cheers for Rutan, Binnie, Melville and their crew!
Posted by: Tron4America   Posted on: 10/04/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Great news!  d_jedi | 10/04/04
All Tech Support For Spacecraft Outsourced To India  itanalyst | 10/04/04
Give it a rest, ok?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/04/04
Awww Poor Axy....Seeing Too Much MS Bashing The Last Week?  itanalyst | 10/04/04
Not at all,,,  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/04/04
Tech Support From Space  Loverock Davidson | 10/04/04
SIMPLY OUTSTANDING ! (nt)  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/04/04
Congrats to Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites  Tron4America | 10/04/04
Agreed on both counts  PA-ITGuy | 10/04/04
Excellent points, and they bring up a trivia question:  Judas I. | 10/04/04
Software  PA-ITGuy | 10/04/04
Super! Thanks, that is even better. (NT)  Judas I. | 10/04/04
Everyone has a vision, takes real money to make it happen.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/04/04
But let's not overexaggerate, either..  d_jedi | 10/04/04
Actually...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/04/04
Well, actually...  asky | 10/04/04
Good point  PA-ITGuy | 10/04/04
While that may be true..  Patrick Jones | 10/04/04
Sort of true...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/04/04
Both  asky | 10/04/04
B-29  joe@... | 07/30/07
Neither..  Patrick Jones | 10/05/04
At the risk of starting a flame war....  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/04/04
huh?  d_jedi | 10/04/04
Actually it was Paul Allen and Vulcan Ventures.  B.O.F.H. | 10/04/04
Making space flight happen  asky | 10/04/04
Agreed..  Patrick Jones | 10/05/04
Not really..  Patrick Jones | 10/05/04
Not finacial backing but ROI  voska | 10/05/04
Was it?  John L. Ries | 10/05/04
VERY Disappointing  Roger Ramjet | 10/05/04
Next step  John L. Ries | 10/05/04
Same day: Gordon Cooper leaves us.  dwest_z | 10/05/04
Very Impressive  samp_z | 10/05/04

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