Originally posted by ra
Good to see a billionaire who can still dream like a kid. Where is Gates with his bazillion dollars? Probably trying to figure out how to create unblockable popups.
gates kinda sorta has a hand in it ...
The ship will be released from a carrier craft at a height of 15,000 metres, and will fire its rockets to climb to a height of 100km before falling back into the atmosphere and gliding to Earth. Mr Klerkx said he was not surprised at talk of a link between Virgin and Scaled Composites' sub-orbital spaceflight plans, currently being bankrolled by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's investment firm, Vulcan Ventures.