White Knight Two Unveiled 144
xanthos writes "Sir Richard Branson was at the annual Experimental Aircraft Assoc Fly-in to show off EVE (previously known as White Knight Two), the launch vehicle for Virgin Galactic's commercial space operation. Test flights for the vehicle are slated for next year with the first paying passengers going up in 2011. What surprised me was the following from the article: 'So many people have signed up already, Whitehorn said, that the company has collected $40 million in deposits with orders to build five spaceships to meet the demand.' Will this mean that the $200k price tag may be dropping?"
Re:"passenger's"? (Score:1, Funny)
Haven't you heard? That's how we make word's plural on the Internet.
In other new's, the contraction of "you are" is "your", and "it's" means "belonging to it".
Re:But it's not - it's suborbital. (Score:5, Funny)
Where's my 2001 space station?
Did you lose that thing again? It's outside, parked next to my flying car.
Re:"passenger's"? (Score:2, Funny)
Haven't you heard? That's how we make word's plural on the Internet's.
There, FTFY
hybrid nitrous oxide and rubber rocket engine-WTF? (Score:4, Funny)
Can anyone more familiar with the rocket design explain this perplexing quote?
So, does this thing literally burn rubber? :D
Cheers,
Re:Stupid Economics (Score:2, Funny)
THIS
We gotta convince the content industry there's DRM on Mars
They foot the bill for space exploration, AND we get to kick them off the planet.
NASA has surplus space station in six years (Score:4, Funny)
Re:But it's not - it's suborbital. (Score:3, Funny)