Get excited!

The Space Ace goes on vacation to Lake Michigan for a few days and those NASA goons immediately start stealing his best ideas. Thank God!

Read this excerpt from the story on SpaceDaily.com:

To garner National Aeronautics and Space Administration support for its program, however, aircraft designer Burt Rutan, creator of the first privately built passenger spaceship, will have to aim higher.
Rutan's firm, Scaled Composites of Mojave, Calif., is partnered with a diverse team of former X Prize contenders, business people, researchers, technical gurus and even a former astronaut to take a stab at designing part of a space transportation system to replace NASA's space shuttles.



(It's worth reading the whole story. Find it here.)
Call me crazy but this seems to be the foundation of a FEDERATION of Space enthusiasts; Scientists, engineers, mathematicians, astronauts, corporate and private industry, all coming together with the aim of creating a system for traveling in Space that will open the door to the Solar System for anyone willing to step through.
We are experiencing Space History in the making and this is only the beginning...

I am just returning from a brief hiatus (did anyone even miss me?) so the posts will be fast and furious as I try to keep you up on what's happening right now in the Space field. So pay attention--there's a lot to report....