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2004-06-21 Home Front: Tech

THEY DID IT!!! - Private rocket ship breaks space barrier

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Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-06-21 11:33:33 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

--John Gillespie Magee, Jr., 1941

Posted by Mike 2004-06-21 1:15:40 PM|| 2004-06-21 1:15:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Too cool! And more than a little ironic, looking at today's news. On one hand we have Islamonauts trying to drag us back into the 7th century and on the other, we have private citizen Astronauts trying to fly us into the future.

I know whose side I'm on.

Posted by SteveS 2004-06-21 1:39:21 PM|| 2004-06-21 1:39:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 All we need now are a FLIR and pyrex encased HellFires.

Demand a Lettre of Reprisal!

Posted by Shipman 2004-06-21 1:56:09 PM|| 2004-06-21 1:56:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 About time.

Posted by Chris W. 2004-06-21 3:38:57 PM|| 2004-06-21 3:38:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 *cues up Steppenwolfe's Magic Carpet Ride.

Posted by Anonymous4021 2004-06-21 3:50:04 PM|| 2004-06-21 3:50:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The Byrds: Eight Miles High

Posted by mojo 2004-06-21 5:43:56 PM|| 2004-06-21 5:43:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Lenny Kravitz, "Fly Away"
Foo Fighters, "Learn To Fly"
James Horner, "The Launch" (Apollo 13 soundtrack).
. . . and for those with really large LP collections:
Moody Blues, "Higher and Higher" (To Our Children's Children's Children)
Pink Floyd, "Fearless" (Meddle) and "The Gold It's In The . . . " (Obscured By Clouds;)

Posted by Mike 2004-06-21 6:14:22 PM|| 2004-06-21 6:14:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Van Hagar (Van Halen)

Higher and Higher (Thats what dreams are made of) - the old vid with the Blue Angels.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-06-21 10:22:32 PM|| 2004-06-21 10:22:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Fearless and Higher work for me...congrats Rutan and team!

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-21 10:25:56 PM|| 2004-06-21 10:25:56 PM|| Front Page Top

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