[Gllug] SpaceShipOne

[David Damerell]

On Monday, 21 Jun 2004, Richard Jones wrote:
>Does anyone have a confirmed apogee?  I'm fairly sure that the
>announcer mentioned 328,000ft which is 99.97km, annoyingly just 30
>meters short of entering "space"!

If that figure was rounded to the nearest thousand feet it could well
be up to 100.126 km.

In fact it seems most likely to be that someone converted 100km to
feet - 328,084 - and then rounded, and that figure has nothing to do
with the actual height reached at all.

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