Most of us space launch geeks have been waiting for some time for the SpaceshipOne people to drop the “orbital” shoe, and this looks like it.

Web site here.

It’s cool, but also a bit annoying, since I’ve still got the presentation work Burt and our outfit did back in 2006-2007. Same damn lifter plane only it had our rocket concept hanging underneath it.

Sigh.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:
(1) It’s completely impossible.
(2) It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing.
(3) I said it was a good idea all along.

- Arthur C. Clarke