Did You Know? SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight on Jun 21, 2004. This kind of venture is the future of manned spaceflight. Governments are overspending far too much on other things to be able to afford manned spaceflight in any significant amount. We may never get off the planet in any substantial way, but if we do, it will be because space becomes *profitable* to the private sector. If you want to see more manned spaceflight, government needs to get out of the way of the private sector. (They could, of course, overregulate it to death, in which case nobody goes anywhere.) LEARN MORE.
