Thursday, September 28, 2006

I’ll have a side of lobster

That Buck Rogers Stuff

Virgin Galactic unveiled a mockup of the interior of their upcoming sub-orbital craft, the SpaceShipTwo being designed as we speak by visioary aerospace genius but terrible nomenclator Burt Rutan.  This is sweet.  Eight people on a ballistic shot, several minutes of weightlessness for $200k.  Test flights are scheduled to begin in the spring of 2008, with commercial flights beginning in 2009.  What’s that, ten years for a small company to go from drawing board to successful prototype to commercial full rate production?  NASA should be hiring these people.  And, Brickmuppet should be buying me dinner soon.


Posted by Buckethead on 09/28/06 at 08:05 PM
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