Dean's World

I am pleased and thrilled to learn that Virgin's Richard Branson and Microsoft's Paul G. Allen have recently made major investments in Burt Rutan's Spaceship One project. Virgin is trumpeting this as much as Scaled Composites is.

They're hoping to develop a serious--fledgeling, but serious--space tourism business.

Scaled Composites made history with the first private manned space flight back in June of this year, and is planning on winning the X-Prize on September 29th of this year.

For all that we're obsessed with the election now, I must say that September the 29th of 2004 may be a bigger and more important day in human history than November 2nd.

(Via Gerund.)