First privately owned & operated spacecraft reaches space

[Dynasty]

SpaceShipOne became the first private-sector spacecraft to reach outer space on Monday.

Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5261571/?GT1=3584

The ship just barely made it into space (by 408 feet) and didn't stay there long. But, Orville and Wilbur Wright's first flight wasn't spectacular either.

[Zeno]

The Entrepreneur Spirit is doing well. This is good news. I had a model of the X-15 when I was young lad.

-Zeno

[Bump-en-Stein]

Hopefully, Dutch Boyd was on it.

[IrishHand]

What amazed me was that they could do it for a little over $20M. If it had been developed by a military contractor, you'd have to figure it would have cost ten times that at least.

[B-Man]

You mean no taxpayer dollars were spent on this project?

Wow, the democrats aren't going to like that! /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

(first the Patriots go from the worst stadium in the NFL to the best stadium by building a state-of-the-art facility with no public financing, and now we have a privately funded spaceship. I don't know what this country is coming to...)