DOVES:

Does ANYONE see the "typology" in the first "PRIVATE" manned
spacecraft being sent into space on the first day of summer and
our "possible" NEAR RAPTURE?  Isn't there SUPPOSED to be a
type of "PRIVACY" / a type of intimacy involved with Christ if we
are a Christian?  An unwise "virgin" from Matthew 25 might NOT
think so!!!

Matthew 25
6"At midnight the cry rang out: 'Here's the bridegroom! Come
out to meet him!'
7"Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.
8 The foolish ones said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil;
our lamps are going out.'
9" 'No,' they replied, 'there may not be enough for both us and you.
Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.'
10"But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom
arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding
banquet. And the door was shut.
11"Later the others also came. 'Sir! Sir!' they said. 'Open the door for us!'
12"But he replied, 'I tell you the truth, I don't know you.'
13"Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

Micah 7
Israel's Misery
1 What misery is mine!
I am like one who gathers SUMMER FRUIT
at the gleaning of the vineyard;
there is no cluster of grapes to eat,
none of the early figs that I crave.
2 The godly have been swept from the land;
not one upright man remains.
All men lie in wait to shed blood;
each hunts his brother with a net.

The flight can be kept up with on SCALED.COM.  Here is an aol write up:

FROM:
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20040619181509990002

First Private, Manned Spacecraft Starts Test Flight
 

MOJAVE, Calif. (June 21) -- SpaceShipOne lifted off early Monday in
the initial stage of the world's first attempted commercial space flight.

The privately funded rocket plane was attached to a larger plane called
the White Knight and took off from a runway in the Mojave Desert in
California, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles. The unprecedented
$20 million project is intended to demonstrate the viability of commercial
space flight and open the door for space tourism.

The distinctive white rocket plane with a striking nose -- a pointed cone
covered with small portholes -- next will be released and then ignite its
rocket engine to punch beyond the upper layer's of earth's atmosphere
62 miles above the earth before gliding back to earth and landing.

SpaceShipOne was designed by legendary aerospace designer Burt
Rutan and was built with more than $20 million in funding by billionaire
Paul Allen. It is being piloted by Michael Melvill.

SpaceShipOne was so thoroughly prepared that no work was done on
it over the weekend, designer Rutan said Sunday as aviation enthusiasts
gathered in the Mojave Desert to await the event.

''Clearly, there is an enormous, pent-up hunger to fly in space and
not just dream about it,'' Rutan told a news conference. ''Now I know
what it was like to be involved in America's amazing race to the moon
in the '60s.''

The rocket, carrying pilot Melvill, was carried aloft from Mojave
Airport.  After a climb to about 50,000 feet, SpaceShipOne was to
be released from the mother ship, fire its rockets for 80 seconds,
coast up to the target altitude of 62 miles and then make a half-hour
descent as a glider.

The project was funded by Paul Allen, the billionaire Microsoft co-
founder, who would describe the cost only as being in excess of
$20 million.

SpaceShipOne has emerged as the leading contender for the
Ansari X Prize, a $10 million award to the first privately financed
three-seat spacecraft to reach 62 miles and repeat the feat within
two weeks.

The three-seat requirement demonstrates the capacity for paying
customers; the quick turnaround between flights demonstrates
reusability and reliability.

Monday's planned flight was not part of that competition, but
Melvill was confident that the program will go on to claim the
prize, which is intended to spur efforts to give the public access
to space.

''I'm ready to go; boy, I am ready to go. And we are going to win
the X-Prize. Put your money on it,'' he said Sunday.

Melvill, 62, was selected for the flight from among the project's
three pilots. During a test flight last month, he flew the rocket
plane to an altitude of about 40 miles.

''I enjoyed the last flight,'' Melvill said. ''I'm hoping this will be
an exact repetition just a little taller, a little higher, a little faster,
and I'm looking forward to it very, very much.''

NASA also is interested, said Michael Lembeck, requirements
division director of the space agency's Office of Exploration Systems.

''We need people like Burt Rutan with innovative ideas that will
take us to the moon and Mars,'' he said from the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters. ''Folks like
Burt bring a different way of doing business.''

Melvill is a test pilot and vice president-general manager at Rutan's
company, Scaled Composites, which built SpaceShipOne.

He has set national and world records for altitude and speed in certain
classes of aircraft, and has logged more than 6,400 hours of flight
time in 111 fixed-wing aircraft and seven helicopters. His test flights
range from crop dusters to fighter jet prototypes and racing planes.

Rutan gained wide fame by designing the Voyager aircraft, which
flew around the world nonstop and without refueling in 1986. Rutan
hoped his latest program shows that spaceflight is not just for
governments.

''I believe that realization will attract investment and that realization
will attract a whole bunch of activity and very soon it will be
affordable for you to fly.''

06/21/04 10:10 EDT