[geeks] Woohoo! SpaceShipOne does it!

[james]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 10:14, Brian Dunbar wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2004, at 8:14 AM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> 
> >> From: Kris Kirby <kris at catonic.net>
> >> Date: 2004/10/05 Tue AM 10:25:19 GMT
> >> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [geeks] Woohoo! SpaceShipOne does it!
> >>
> >> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Ido Dubrawsky wrote:
> >>> http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/10/04/spaceshipone.attempt.cnn/
> >>> index.html
> >>>
> >>> Awesome...makes me think about going back into the Aerospace field...
> >>
> >> Indeed. The Age of Commercial Aerospace will be upon us shortly..
> >
> > Apparently, Virgin has licensed the technology, they want to offer  
> > "space travel"...

I assume that this altitude is not beyond the reach of gravity? If the
ship's systems fail will they return to earth?

And, is this altitude high enough to be usefull for placing small
satellites in orbit?