Space Shuttle's "Return to Flight"

[TigerLily]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Interestingly, though, the guy who designed it - the legendary Burt Rutan, who has a picture in side the queue of Soarin over CA, has just partnered with the Billionaire founder of Virgin Atlantic Airlines - Branson, I think? - in a business venture to make space vehicles. I will be curious to see where this goes. Definitely the brains and the financing to make something cool.

it was a contest, for lack of a better word, and they received a nice check for making it into space and back twice. Although the first trip was a bit rocky....I hope somthing comes of this....as for experiments in space...whats the point?