Squee! Not long now!!!

Virgin spaceship to pass new milestone

The world's first private passenger spaceship will pass another milestone toward its commercial lift-off on Friday, at a remote spaceport in the New Mexico desert.

Flamboyant British multi-millionaire Richard Branson will commemorate the completion of the main runway at Spaceport America, ( Read more... )

More news about the VSS Enterprise, another successful test flight. This time the VSS Enterprise (also know as SpaceShipTwo) did a solo flight.

Private spaceship makes solo flight

Virgin Galactic's space tourism rocket SpaceShipTwo has made its first solo glide flight in California.

SpaceShipTwo was carried aloft 13,700 metres on Sunday morning by ( Read more... )

BBs, welcome to Fix Club. If this is your first night, you HAVE to show your appreciation for the finest engineers in Starfleet.


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You may remember a few months ago I made a post about Virgin Galatic's test flight's of the VMS Eve and the VSS Enterprise. There is a new update.

Galactic spacecraft makes crewed flight

A company working to send tourists on suborbital flights says it has tested its spacecraft with a crew for the first time.

Virgin Galactic says the craft remained ( Read more... )

*agrees that this comm has been far to slow lately* "Might I suggest a party post Mods?"

Anyway where was I? Oh yes, what is your favourite Star Trek Novel? Doesn't matter whether it is TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager or Enterprise.

Personally my No. 1 would have to be the TOS/DS9 crossover "Trials and Tribble-ations" novelisation. Sisko and Dax throwing ( Read more... )

Yesterday I headed down to the Kalamazoo Valley Museum to take some pics of the Trek stuff that's a part of the current sci-fi and fantasy costume exhibit, JUST FOR YOU GUYS. Thing is, I had thought there were only two costumes there - both exceedingly relevant to this comm. Which meant that I had a really exciting day, because there were, er, a ( Read more... )

I don't know how many ONTDers are like me and read recaps of their fave shows from Television Without Pity (TWoP), but since both have similar attributes (obsessed fans, snark, smart and funny ppl) there's bound to be some crossover, right ( Read more... )

As we all know, soon Sir Richard Branson will be launching Virgin Galactic. But did you know this...

Virgin spaceship makes maiden flight
Virgin Galactic's experimental SpaceshipTwo (SS2), an aircraft designed to one day carry paying customers into space, had its maiden flight in the California desert on Monday, the company announced.

The spacecraft ( Read more... )

Because not every post can be a walking post. :D

The New Scientist posted an article about research done by a scientist at Johns Hopkins. According to him, warp drive is impossible because hydrogen atoms would cook everyone inside the Enterprise before they achieve warp drive. Or something.

D:Thanks, New Scientist, for stomping on the dreams of ( Read more... )

I got this through my daily jokes email, I thought I'd share, I hope you guys enjoy.

( Signs that the Enterprise is Nearing the End of it's Warranty )