Monday, September 27, 2004

Mars Needs Women

That Buck Rogers Stuff

... really I’ve just been spoiling for an excuse to use that phrase. Love it. Love. It.

Billionaire playboy and rumpled mess Richard Branson has announced the founding of Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial space passenger venture.

Within the decade, Branson plans to take paying customers to space. At 115K quid a pop, it’s not exactly a train ride to Altoona, but think about this: you will be able to pay $300,000 in 2009 for something that has been dreamt of-- and utterly impossible-- for the entire span of recorded human history. That is super f***ing badass.

In other news, Branson has licensed Burt Rutan’s SpaceShipOne technology for his vehicle fleet.

In other other news, it looks like this Wednesday Rutan’s crew will start making the actual non-beta-test flights that should win them the X-Prize.

The future is now, folks. 


Posted by Johno on 09/27/04 at 07:48 PM
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