Northrop Grumman to own Scaled Composites

Dolphinzilla writes "According to Space.com, Northrop Grumman Corporation agreed on July 5 to increase its stake in Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites (designers of Space Ship One, Proteus) from 40 percent to 100 percent. They have purchased the company outright, marking a new future for the space pioneering firm. 'Scaled Composites currently is working with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic venture on a vehicle designated for now as SpaceShipTwo, which would carry two pilots and six paying passengers into suborbital space for a few minutes of weightlessness. The company also is building a new carrier aircraft, dubbed WhiteKnight2, that will carry SpaceShipTwo to an altitude of 15 kilometers before releasing it to soar to suborbital space. The two companies last year formed a joint venture called the Spaceship Company to build the new vehicles.'"

Comments

Re:surprise, space is a business.

[nacturation]

this also has the faint smell of "NASA can't cut it any more, their memoes all blow up." Memoes? Is that like Dan Quayle's "potatoe"?

Re:consolidations

[deimtee]

prizes

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Alright!

[Anonymous Coward]

YAY! My Employer bought them!

Now to get a transfer!!!

Re:uhh, 20th century, too

[nacturation]

FWIW, I'm from the midwest and that is the way we were taught to spell potatoe and tomatoe. I don't know if it is a rural thing, a midwest thing or what, but I never understood why folks got into such a tizzy over the spelling. And the reason is exactly as you state, it is the proper way to make the preceding vowel a long sound. Soe, I guess you also goe to the store. Noe?