[A. Pole]

Asked last week when he'd start accepting paying passengers for his now-proven SpaceShipOne, his answer was essentially "never" -- because it might cost upwards of $200 million to get the ship certified for passengers by the FAA.

It cost too much to make bathrooms convenient for the handicapped?

[nuke_road_warrior]

If the Wright's had to get FAA approval prior to the Kitty Hawk flight, their aircraft would still be in a warehouse in Dayton waiting approval. On the other hand Al-Quaeda would have had to use steam locomotives to attack the WTC and Pentagon.