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To: rsie who wrote (3013)	12/22/2004 8:31:34 PM
From: Investor2	Respond to of 10065

Hi richard! Speaking about what to expect in the future, check this out: "In the entrepreneurial achievement of 2004, Burt Rutan became the first private businessman to launch human beings into space. His ultimate goal: to make space flight routine -- and turn a big profit. By David H. Freedman Above 100,000 feet, the air is so thin that wings become useless and aerodynamics stop mattering. Climbing higher takes sheer propulsion -- propulsion that air-breathing jet engines can't deliver in the deepening vacuum. Here is where the sky ends, the horizon curving away to reveal the star-freckled shadow of space. Call it nature's Maginot Line, separating the world of planes from the world of rockets. Until a few months ago, that line seemed an impregnable barrier, with $200 coast-to-coast tickets for the masses underneath it and billion-dollar megalaunches for a few dozen professional astronauts above. But barriers are meant to be breached. In this case, history may pinpoint the breach to that moment on October 4 when an orca-shaped, stubby-winged aircraft planted its almost comically spindly legs on a runway in California's Mojave Desert. In so doing, the privately funded SpaceShipOne had carried humans to space and back again twice within a week, earning its owners the Ansari X-Prize, meant to spur the opening of the age of commercial space travel." More at biz.yahoo.com Best wishes, I2