A report from Rand Simberg, who attended the launch of SpaceShip One:
If there were any hitches, they weren’t apparent from the viewing stand. They hit the apogee of at least a hundred kilometers, and had a smooth entry and landing.
[…] The question now is what effect, short and long term, this will have on the growing prospects for this new liberating industry. XCOR has gotten a lot of good publicity out of this. Here’s hoping it means investors as well.
Amen. Now, if somebody could just bring me the personal jetpack I was promised as a child, I’d could die happy…
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update: plenty more here.
Funny, I watched a special on personal jetpacks this weekend … it seems that there’s liek one, and some guy travels around the world and flies it at football halftime shows and the like. It’s pretty damn awesome.
They should be free with the purchase of a big box of Kix Cereal at this point, is all I’m saying.
and the flying cars? we were promised flying cars.
Where are the flying cars?
Silly blogger, Kix are for kids. And sugar junkies.
Two weeks, repeat… I think we have a $10M winner. Now if I can just get Protein Wisdom to subsidize my maiden voyage, Bingo!
Well, it was his name. I didn’t name the damned mutt.
Caommander Cody, away!