Sunday, August 28, 2005

SpaceShipThree poised to follow if SS2 succeeds





"SpaceShipThree is planned for Scaled's tier 2 manned space programme, while the nine-person SpaceShipTwo is part of the current tier 1b programme.

"The suborbital three-crew SpaceShipOne (SS1), which won the $10 million Ansari X Prize last October, was developed within Scaled Composites' tier 1 programme.

"'If the SpaceShipTwo service is successful we will develop SpaceShipThree, which is orbital,' says Whitehorn." (Via Future Hi.)

I'm saving my money for the Earth-Mars cycleship.

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