Armadillo Rocket Makes A (Short) Manned Hop

riney writes "w00t! John Carmack and crew at Armadillo Aerospace have gotten their first man in the air. Six seconds of perfectly controlled flight with human passenger. See their site for details and video."

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Cool. Outer space here we come.

[no reason to be here]

More projects like this need to come to fruition. especially speculative commercial enterprises looking to make some kind of money off space exploration (like mining the moon or mars or something).

the age of discovery when europeans (for better and worse) started traipsing all over the globe was driven by monetary interests above all else. it's great to do scientific experiments in space, but the prospect of making cold hard cash will get us a colony on the moon much sooner.