Ahhhhh man, this is the stuff that I wish they'd freaking show on tv rather than "ZOMG!! Britney Spears eated a cookie today!!! :aigo:"
SpaceShip Two photos:
SpaceShip Two demo video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBlifr6EQNU...feature=related
up to date version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg_IkXwnH3U
A nice .pdf with a summary a lot of the competitions going on and milestones in commercial space flight:
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headqu...rs_offices/ast/
And the cool one to me, Google's Lunar X Prize. A race for the first commercial company to get to the moon:
http://www.googlelunarxprize.org
Odyssey Moon's (first company to get the paperwork for competition done) website:
http://www.odysseymoon.com/
Maybe I'm just a nerd :biglaugh:, but anyone else following all of this or get excited about it?
SpaceShip Two photos:









SpaceShip Two demo video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBlifr6EQNU...feature=related
up to date version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg_IkXwnH3U
A nice .pdf with a summary a lot of the competitions going on and milestones in commercial space flight:
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headqu...rs_offices/ast/
And the cool one to me, Google's Lunar X Prize. A race for the first commercial company to get to the moon:
http://www.googlelunarxprize.org
Odyssey Moon's (first company to get the paperwork for competition done) website:
http://www.odysseymoon.com/
Maybe I'm just a nerd :biglaugh:, but anyone else following all of this or get excited about it?