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Old October 6th 04, 04:46 AM
Rand Simberg
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On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 03:27:16 GMT, in a place far, far away, Scott
Lowther made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:



Neil Halelamien wrote:


"We'd have a small cramped cabin for the orbital flight and you'd be in
it for a long time. You'd want to go to a hotel [because of that] and
for orbital tourism you'd want an altitude of 130km," says Rutan.



Yikes. You'd want higher than that, and you'd want more than one guy.


And you'd want a vehicle that could enter at Mach teens, rather than
Mach three...