Dario wrote: Don't you find the SpaceShipOne to resemble Sci-Fi movies and book covers of the Fifties or older? That spindle shape, all those portholes, not to speak of the blue starlets here and there... To me, it looks like a naive design, very different from what I expected from current technology.
Or could it be that the early sci-fi and pop- sci writers were grounded in some good principles that Rutan has expanded on? Butch Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself. Hermann Hesse (Demian)