Archive for April 7th, 2004

April 7th, 2004

First License for Manned Rocket Flight

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced it has issued the worlds first license for a sub-orbital manned rocket flight.

The license was issued April 1 by the Federal Aviation Administrations Office of Commercial Space Transportation to Scaled Composites of Mojave, Calif., headed by aviation record-holder Burt Rutan, for a sequence of sub-orbital [...]

April 7th, 2004

FireFly

I saw the first episode of the Firefly DVD series today, and it is absolutely fantastic. A brilliant combination of sci-fi and western, the series was produced by Joss Whedon, the creator the Buffy and Angel series, which I have also grown to like. Unfortunately, Fox canceled the series before the end of [...]