I think this whole SpaceShipOne thing (and the X-Prize, for that matter) is fantastic. At a time when NASA is strangled by politics and Russia by cashflow, it needs the likes of Mr Rutan and co to inject some excitement into the space industry. For the first time there is hope that the ordinary person can (for a suitably large amount of dosh) fly into space. Hey, maybe Scaled will offer online ordering of space trips in the next couple of years… that’d be some waiting list 😉