[Gllug] SpaceShipOne

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 07:00:32PM +0100, David Damerell wrote:
> 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.

I think you're right.  Much more likely that they aimed to have
a bigger margin over the "magic" 100km height ...

Rich.

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