Forget the Concorde!
You can forget the Concorde, I want a passenger ticket when civilian trips to space are available. With the successful launch of the world’s first private spacecraft, I’m ready to hop a flight. (I’m in denial about how much such flights will likely cost. A gal’s gotta dream big, you know!) Check out the awesome in-flight video!
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I do have a hypothetical question, though. The inventors of this civilian spacecraft named it SpaceShipOne. It’s feasible to think that someday the President of the United States might do at least some of his long-distance travel by hopping into space briefly — well out of surface-to-air missle and enemy aircraft range. I wonder how long, then, we have until there’s a U.S. government owned and maintained “SpaceShip One” (identical in name, if not in design) just as we have Air Force One, Marine One and so forth? Something to ponder… 
Hats off to Burt Rutan and Paul Allen (Microsoft’s co-founder, a billionaire) and their company, Scaled Composites for their journey into the history books. With the Space Shuttle grounded by February’s catastrophic re-entry breakup, it’s wonderful to see CNN and the public at least looking skyward with excitement and anticipation again!
