[bootless]

Cool... very cool about JoAnn Painter. Snopercod, remember meeting her and her husband Wes at SMX a few years back? They were among the Hamlins' guests. They are Pietenpol experts.

[Brett66]

Very interesting, more developments in sub-orbital tourism.....

[longshadow]

"....and the facility is seeking a federal license for space launches."

Licenses? You have to be kidding me. Did Lucky Lindy get special "license" to fly to Paris? Did the Wright Bros. need government permission before they were allowed to fly their heavier-than-air craft in Dec. 1903? Did Columbus get a license from North American Indian Tribes before he discovered the new world?

Give me a break. I hope the Rutans tell the government to piss off and make the first commercial sub-obital flight whenever they are ready to go. They can give SPACECOM a 15 minute heads-up on trajectory and schedule, as a courtesy.