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...from the runway, a hangar will be erected to house WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo, the tandem craft designed by aerospace engineer Burt Rutan. WhiteKnightTwo is being test-flown now; SpaceShipTwo makes its public debut in Mojave, Calif., on Dec. 7. Together, they will carry two pilots and six passengers to an altitude of 70 miles - the edge of space. Passengers will enjoy five minutes of eerie silence and weightlessness (floating somersaults are allowed) and 1,000-mile views in all directions before a half-hour glide back to earth. Tickets cost $200,000, and 300 people have already signed...
...save myself $30 million? I've been in this a lot longer than there's been a Virgin Galactic. Those of us who founded Space Adventures are, generally speaking, the same people who founded the X-Prize. And the X-Prize is what created the opportunity for Burt Rutan to go build SpaceShipOne, and Virgin Galactic came in and paid to have ?Virgin Galactic? painted its tail. They?re a latecomer to the party, but an extremely valuable participant; they'll probably fly the first commercial suborbital flights...
...Universal Space Travel? One of the silliest prophecies I've ever read was in "The Space Cowboys" [March 5]. Aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan said, "Fifteen years from now, every kid will know he can go to orbit in his lifetime." Even the kids in Ghana portrayed in the same issue? And where is the fuel to come from? Surely there are better uses for the world's dwindling energy resources. Lars Sollin, lund, sweden...
...Universal Space Travel? One of the silliest prophecies I've ever read was in "The Space Cowboys" [March 5]. Aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan said, "Fifteen years from now, every kid will know he can go to orbit in his lifetime." Even the kids in Ghana portrayed in the March 12 issue? And where is the fuel to come from? Surely there are better uses for the world's dwindling energy resources. Lars Sollin, Lund, Sweden...
...that basically gives them until 2012 to establish standards without the onerous rule-making of the 70-year-old airline industry. This month, the Federal Aviation Administration will issue guidelines for crew and passengers on spaceships. One bad accident and the door to space could be slammed shut. Rutan notes that the risk of dying on early planes was one in 6,000. Today, it's one in several million. He's not going to fly until he's sure today's spaceships are as safe as early planes, he says. "This isn't something for crazy avant-garde adventurers...