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CNN are reporting that Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites Spaceship One is due to make its first space flight tomorrow at 6.30am Pacific time. What’s particularly exciting about this is that it’s paid for entirely with private money. This could be the dawn of a new age of private space travel. Let’s hope so — I want to go to the moon before I die!

Dale Amon has been covering Scaled Composites’ progress since day one.

“I think it is time that the commercial guys get aggresssive with space flight, rather than wait for Nasa.” — Burt Rutan.

“It’s quicker than most fighters and a nervous little airplane.” — Test pilot.

Interesting fact: Much of the money has come from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

Oh no! Mojave is two and a half hours’ drive from where I am… What are the chances I can get there in time to watch the flight, and then get back for my return flight…?

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