Remember Today.
Jun. 21st, 2004 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bzarcherI don't know if a lot of people will realize it, but 6/21/2004 is going to be as important as a flight by two brothers on a North Carolina beach.
For we have slipped these bonds, and touched the face of God.
Yes, it took a lot to do it, but it's now been done. And they're going to do it again, and again, and again. The engine design will probably get duplicated, improved, refined, and expanded, and it would not surprise me if suborbital travel starts getting commercially availible in the next five to ten years.
From there, especially once orbiters are ready, it's going to just be a matter of steps...
For we have slipped these bonds, and touched the face of God.
Yes, it took a lot to do it, but it's now been done. And they're going to do it again, and again, and again. The engine design will probably get duplicated, improved, refined, and expanded, and it would not surprise me if suborbital travel starts getting commercially availible in the next five to ten years.
From there, especially once orbiters are ready, it's going to just be a matter of steps...
