Well..........sort of.
Today a huge step was made in 'common man' getting to space. Burt Rutan (designed the Long Easy, among other aircraft) along with Microsoft Co Founder Paul Allen have got the first Non-Government manned-vehicle in space. They launched early this morning teathered to a 'mother ship' who got the space craft to 50,000ft. Once at 50,000 ft, they dropped the space ship and it went off to the edge of space, encountering weightlessness for about 3 minutes.
Probably in a few weeks you will see the group secure the X prize, a $10 Million dollar purse, for becoming the first private company to get a person to space twice within two weeks.
Oh yea....this whole project cost somewhere arond $20 Million dollars. To put this into prospective, the Shuttle costs $50 Million each launch!
It's a great day for space nuts, as some huge break throughs were made today.
So...the question...did anyone watch it? (I was on the road when it happened).




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