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Old 28th Sep 2004, 12:19
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Xeque
 
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The big day is tomorrow.

6am PST take-off from Mojave on the first privately funded flight into space with passengers thanks to Burt Rutan and Paul Allen (of Microsoft fame - hope they're not using XP for the on board computers )

If they repeat within three (I think) weeks they win a truckload of money - The Ansari X prize.

In the meantime, our mate Richard (Virgin) Branson is in like Flynn. Virgin logos on the tail (of a model - plastic not human) and a promise that we can all fly Virgin into space by 2007.

Wonder what the seat pitch in Economy will be?

Any way - jokes aside - it is a mammoth undertaking and God Speed to Mike Melvil and his "passengers" tomorrow
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