What a country!

Where else would somebody spend $20,000,000 to win a $10,000,000 prize? But that's a drop in the bucket to what it would have cost if NASA had built it.

Yesterday will be right up there with the Wrights' first powered flight at Kitty Hawk. It's been a long time coming, and it will be years before Rutan can launch satellites, but it's long overdue for humans to return to the days of the X-15 and development of rocket planes. One can now for the first time, really imagine space flights for ordinary people.

boingboing calls it Space Woodstock. Were there a lot of drugs?