A scary ride on the SpaceShipOne
New Scientist reports that there were a few frightening moments aboard SpaceShipOnes first private spaceflight. There were a couple of glitches the most serious one was:The problem struck at the end of the rocket engine's firing time of about 70 seconds, just as Melvill reached space. "As I came out of the atmosphere I no longer had any attitude control," Melvill told New Scientist and other reporters. "If that had happened earlier, I would never have made it and you all would be looking sad right now."
The mishaps remind me of the early X plane flights where the earliest astronauts experianced simular incidents.
posted by Liberty @ 4:15 PM
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