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Paul Allen’s Maiden Voyage
Trail Blazers
owner funds
space flight
(AP) — A rocket plane soared
above Earth’s atmosphere Mon
day in the first privately financed
manned spaceflight, then glided
back to Earth for an unpowered
landing.
The ship touched down at Mojave
Airport in California to applause and
cheers at 8 :15 a.m., about 90 minutes
after it was carried aloft slung under
the belly of a jet-powered airplane
named White Knight.
Standing on the tarmac beside
the ship, pilot Mike Melvill said
Paul Allen's SpaceShipOne with pilot Michael W. Melvill glides in
for a landing after a trip to suborbital space. (AP photo)
seeing the Earth from outside the
atmosphere was “almost a religious
experience.”
“You can see the curvature of
the Earth," he said. “You got a hell
o f a view from 60,62 miles.”
Melvill said he heard a loud bang
during the flight and did not know
what it was. But he pointed to a
place at the rear o f the spacecraft
where a part of the structure cover
ing the nozzle had buckled, sug
gesting it may have been the source
o f the noise.
W hite Knight took off at 6:45
a.m. carrying the rocket plane. Af-
te ra n h o u rs’ climb the pair reached
about
4 6 ,0 0 0
fe e t
an d
SpaceShipOne was released.
A moment later Melvill fired his
rocket engine for its push into space
Both crafts were built by innova
tive aircraft designer Burt Rutan,
and the project was funded by
Microsoft co-founder and Portland
Trail BlazerOwner Paul Allen, who
would only describe the cost as
being in excess o f $20 million.
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(A P)— A woman was shot in the
chest in her West Seattle apartment
when a bullet was fired from an
upstairs unit, police said Monday.
The 59-year-old woman was sit
ting on her couch when she was
shot Sunday evening. She told
police she had been struck by a
bullet that had come through the
ceiling.
T h e w o m an w as ta k en to
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lives upstairs, M arcus D. Moss,
19, for investigation o f assualt,
after he told officers he was the
unit’s only resident and that he
had heard the shot but didn’ t know
where it came from.
No gun was immediately found,
but officers found what appeared
to be a bullet hole in the floor.
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