In The Future, Things Will Be Different
- At April 08, 2004
- By Bob Howe
- In Blog Posts
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The Associated Press reports this morning that the U.S. Government has licensed the first private manned rocket:
April 8, 2004 | WASHINGTON (AP) –- — Burt Rutan wants affordable space travel for the public to be a reality within 10 years.
The government helped the aviation maverick take a big step toward that goal Wednesday by awarding his company the first license for a manned suborbital rocket.
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Woweeee! Who’d’a thunk that the Bushites would be forward-looking enough to allow privatization of space?
Gleeful,
Chris