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Box A Rox
April 30, 2013, 2:39pm Report to Moderator

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Richard Branson's space tourism company Virgin Galactic has been working on
its technology for 18 years now.
And all that waiting has paid off with the first successful powered test flight
of SpaceShipTwo.



The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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In before 'only evil, greedy, rich people will be able to fly into space'

And....Should something bad happen down the road.

In before 'the U.S government sabotaged it'

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On a more serious note, once the scramjet engine technology is finished every plane will be flying into space




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Let Branson play with his toy rocket plane.....


Bring on the Scramjets!!!


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By W.J. HENNIGAN | Los Angeles Times




LOS ANGELES —  A lightning-quick experimental aircraft made history when it sped more than 3,000 mph above the Pacific Ocean in a test flight, reigniting decades-long efforts to develop a vehicle that could travel faster than a speeding bullet.

The unmanned X-51A WaveRider, which resembles a shark-nosed missile, was launched midair Wednesday off the coast near Point Mugu. It sped westward for 240 seconds, reaching Mach 5.1, or more than five times the speed of sound, before plunging into the ocean as planned.

The X-51A, built and tested in Southern California, was powered by an air-breathing engine that has virtually no moving parts. It flew for longer than any other aircraft of its kind and traveled more than 264 miles in little more than six minutes.
          
A passenger aircraft traveling at that speed could easily fly from Los Angeles to New York in less than an hour.

"It was a full mission success," Charlie Brink, X-51A program manager for the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate, said in a statement."I believe all we have learned from the X-51A WaveRider will serve as the bedrock for future hypersonics research and ultimately the practical application of hypersonic flight."

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