Famed aircraft designer Burt Rutan unveiled his secret project in the Mohave Desert: a high-atmosphere released vessel that is hoped to be the first private ship to make it to space, and the vessel to carry it into the high atmosphere. It has not made it into the space yet, so all of you spaceship designers better get to work to beat them, if you want the 10 million dollar prize for the first privately funded manned ship to go into space.
Posted by Tiger at April 20, 2003 07:48 PM