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Wednesday, 04 October 2006

>bad start
The first rocket launched from the location of New Mexico’s new spaceport crashed back to Earth only a few miles into its flight on Sept. 25, according to an Associated Press report.

The 20-foot SpaceLoft XL rocket was meant to reach suborbital space, but instead was seen to wobble and then disappear shortly after takeoff.

The rocket launched from a temporary pad at the site of what is slated to be a $225 million spaceport and future home to Virgin Galactic.

>Mars Mars Mars
NASA’s got a new camera pointed at Mars, and the pictures are just starting to come in. The Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter sent back its first pictures on Sept. 29; the images are from a camera called the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), and can reveal detail on the Martian surface down to about 3 feet across, according to NASA.

In other words, if there were people on Mars, they’d just barely show up. Unless they were little people.

>SpaceShipTwo
SpaceShipTwo is coming, heralded by Virgin Galactic’s unveiling of interior designs for the new suborbital passenger craft. Slated for testing in 2008 and commercial operation in 2009, the new Scaled Composites craft will carry six passengers and two pilots, acoording to space.com, a step up from the one-person SpaceShipOne which won the X-Prize in 2004.

 
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