For anyonewho may be interested in space

 The first privately funded manned spaceflight remains on schedule
for
Monday morning. The flight is a part of a collaboration
between
investor and philanthropist Paul Allen and aviation legend Burt
Rutan
whose company Scaled Composites designed and built the
spacecraft.

A carrier aircraft dubbed "White Knight" will ferry the
SpaceShipOne
rocket plane from the Mojave Civilian Aerospace Test Center to
the
launch point high above the California desert.

SpaceShipOne will
be released just east of Mojave from an altitude of
50,000 feet. The pilot
will fire the craft's rocket engine for 80
seconds and climb vertically,
sending the craft to an altitude of 62
miles (100 km) before falling back to
earth. The pilot will experience
zero gravity for more than three minutes.
SpaceShipOne will reenter
the atmosphere glide back to a runway landing at
Mojave.

The timeline for tomorrow's flight is as follows (all times are
PDT):

06:30          White
Knight/SpaceShipOne
takeoff

07:30         
SpaceShipOne
launch

07:55         
SpaceShipOne landing

10:30 - 11:30  Post flight press
conference

If the weather is clear, observers in Mojave and the
surrounding
desert should have an opportunity to view the historic flight.
Scaled
Composites has announced that it will allow the public to view
the
flight in person. Information on public viewing is posted at
www.scaled.com.

Flight-related radio communications from the White Knight
carrier
aircraft and SpaceShipOne may also be audible over a wide
area.

My apolgy again for those who may feel this has
nothing to do with

Verdun.  They would be correct of
course.