Commercial Space Flight

SupraDerk

The Backseat Flyer
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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:

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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?