Marking the solstice the best way...

[sbisson]

...chasing the sun and stealing back some of Icarus' fallen glory...

Congratulations to the team at Scaled Composites, and to Paul Allen...

Comments

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Bah. Getting above the atmosphere is the easy bit. Getting above the atmosphere with enough fuel to achieve orbit is much harder.

Today's acheivement puts us on a par with Alan Shepherd in 1961. I want to be on a par with John Glenn in 1962.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

The important part is that this is a few guys and a few million dollars, not the entire US government. Shows that commercial space-travel can be made to work.