Dave's Favorites: Pictures of the New Space Race
I'm an unabashed space junkie: I've wanted to be an astronaut from the age of five; and I even applied to be a Space Shuttle mission specialist during my time in the Air Force.
So, as you might imagine, I've been on the edge of my seat for the last few months watching Burt Rutan's gorgeous SpaceShipOne deliver the world's first commercial astronauts to space and back again.
SpaceShipOne has now officially won the Ansari X Prize, a $10 million purse for the first private team to take a reusable three-passenger spacecraft to an altitude of 100 kilometers and back again--twice in a two-week period. SpaceShipOne did it in just four days.
To celebrate, I thought I'd point you to some stunning photography and video of this historic event. It doesn't get me into space, but looking at these pictures from the Scaled.com TierOne Photo Gallery almost makes me feel like I'm there:
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