I assume from the lukewarm responses that the flight of civilian spacecraft SpaceShipOne's manned flight into space wasn't as appreciated by others as much as by myself. No matter! This obviously 'mundane to some' event is opening the door to a brand new era in space flight and an advent to adventures and discoveries heretofore only held viable within the government.

A new freedom!!!!! A newly created freedom!

Dang!

Don't you get it? This is a milestone in the history books!!!!



I understand lots of things are more immediately important here on Earth....but.......but.......

I think it's awesome!!!!

Koasati is excited too!

All they need now is warp drive and new uniforms and then we will be going in the right direction.

I think it was China that had promised to have a casino in space by the year 2006. Now I know how we are gonna get there.

Without government intervention, the possibilities are endless. Also more likely to succeed.

paul allen made his bucks co-founding microsoft with gates.. he's got a lot of money, but his interest in this, as in other things, is purely.. educational, you could say? he's been involved in some other experimental stuff, not related to computers.. his role in this is non-microsoft.

i'd say this endeavor is a step in a good direction, but there is no cause for excitement, yet.. unless you're a millionaire with money to blow. the common man won't be able to afford a flight on this thing for some time.

however from a technology point of view, it is hudge. it was recently recommended to NASA to outsource some of it's goals, and collaborate with outside companies to begin meeting expectations for bush's 'trip to mars'. they simply havn't been able to do everything on their own, and - as seen here - an outside company has finally created a re-usable ship. the russians don't even have that. such a step, in conjunction with the amazing work NASA has done in space experiements and their ability to 'air traffic control' stuff in space, is going to start translating into a lot of new technologies. they simply have to WANT to work with others.

Wow.....that was neat

No red shirts, please!

Unless it's not a uniform.

I have paid lot of attention to this. Asteroids mining won't be too far in the future, and with that, there will be much more resources around.

Hum... I'm not so excited about this, actually.

I thought that only governements could go in space? Isn't there sort of a law or someything about that?
I am NOT looking forward to that day when any idiot can go put his trash into orbit around the earth.  I've heard that it's already starting to be a mess out there...

Really, I'm fine with having only the governement going into space...

wow. i wunna make my own ship. who's with me? come on, it can be the Wincustomize ship.. and it'll have animated wings.

Woohoo indeed Mrs_footsie_, woohoo indeed. And the adventures are just now starting.....if Vogons don't come through with their Hyperspace byway we just might go where humanity has not gone before. >