Editor's note: Check out the rocketshadow Twitter feed from XCOR. Henry Vanderbilt got tapped for right seat with Rick Searfoss flying. Check in to see how that flight is going.
Twittering XCOR Rocket Flights

- 7 Feb: NASA Commercial Crew Forum [New]
- 7 Feb: NASA Talk Features Pioneer Researcher and Inventor [New]
- 8-9 Feb: NASA and Industry Join Forces for Virginia Aerospace Day [New]
- 9 Feb: NASA International Space Station Advisory Committee Meeting
- 9 Feb: NASA Hosts Special Event With Recent Space Station Residents [New]
- 10 Feb: Media Invited to see Space Hardware Bound for Japan [New]
- 10-11 Feb: Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee Meeting
- 11 Feb: NASA Astronaut to Honor Black History at Virginia Air and Space Center [New]
- 13 Feb: ESA Briefing on New Results from Planck Mission
- 14 Feb: Astronauts' Discussion Of Recent International Space Station Mission
- 14 Feb: NASA Tweetup With Space Station Astronaut Ron Garan
- 15 Feb: STA reception with Mike Coats
- 15-16 Feb: 15th Annual FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference
- 21 Feb: ISU 16th Annual Symposium: Sustainability of Space Activities: International Issues and Potential Solutions
- 22 Feb: 2012 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
- 22-23 Feb: 2012 NASA PM Challenge
- 23 Feb: NASA Advisory Council Science Committee Planetary Science Subcommittee Meeting
- 26-28 Feb: Space Exploration Alliance 2012 Blitz
- 27-28 Feb: Second International MEPAG Meeting
- 27-29 Feb: Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference
- 28 Feb - 1 Mar: 4th Annual NASA STEM Educators Workshop Series
- 2 Mar: NASA Glenn Tweetup Celebrating 50th Anniversary Of First American To Orbit Earth
- 6-7 Mar: JPL Hosts High-Tech Small Business Conference
- 22 March: Symposium on Suborbital and Small Satellite Missions
- 22-23 Mar: NASA Adminstrator Bolden Speaks at Aerospace and Defense Conference [New]
- 27-29 Mar: 50th Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium
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There goes another one of my fifteen minutes! It was a good flight. Test objective was to see if the engine can be persuaded to misbehave under some worst-case conditions, including vigorous maneuvers. The good program news is it ran smooth as glass all nine times. (Company plug - we're building a serious experience base getting pump-fed engines to operate reliably in flight.) The good personal news is I didn't hurl despite losing count of the number of times I was monitoring the engine instruments with the world outside going through unusual attitudes. Just like when Rocketshadow flew, you've never seen a bigger grin on a pale-green person than me right after we got back.
Henry