Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Sub-orbital

There seemed to be some roll to the ship during the burn stage, possibly due to wind shear, which caused an early engine shut off. However unofficially SpaceShipOne has reached 338,000ft at the peak of it's flight, this figure has still to be confirmed from the "gold box" readings by X-Prize officials.

CREDIT: NASA TV
SpaceShipOne at the peak of it's sub-orbital trajectory