[socal_parrot]

Now that's funny.

[kingu]

It's retired, and it's going to be in the National Air and Space Museum on the Mall in Washington. Rutan told Nemiroff, "[E]veryone in the world wants to fly on it because it's the only operable, private manned spacecraft. However, Paul [Allen] feels that it needs to be preserved for the Air and Space Museum.... So, I don't think we're still debating it; it probably will not be flown again. I think we'll move on and our future space flying will be done with SpaceShipTwo instead of SpaceshipOne."

I'm sure he has some quirks that would disqualify him from being considered a Republican, but this is really the type of thinking that NASA desperately needs to regain.