I saw Burt Rutan speak at the University of Oregon a couple of weeks ago and, thanks to some of the hints he dropped, have been waiting for an announcement like this.
I would tend to believe him on the price. He says that SpaceShip One cost them $25 million, and then they made back $10 million winning the X Prize, and another couple million by putting a sticker that said "Virgin" on the backside of the ship for the second flight. So Scaled Composites' last project got into space for...what's that, net cost of something like $13 million? That's nothing. I mean, nothing. Shoot, folks, we used to watch dot-coms spend $13 million on foosball tables....
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Somehow, I don't think I'm missing much not working for you...six figures or not.
I saw Burt Rutan speak at the University of Oregon a couple of weeks ago and, thanks to some of the hints he dropped, have been waiting for an announcement like this. I would tend to believe him on the price. He says that SpaceShip One cost them $25 million, and then they made back $10 million winning the X Prize, and another couple million by putting a sticker that said "Virgin" on the backside of the ship for the second flight. So Scaled Composites' last project got into space for...what's that, net cost of something like $13 million? That's nothing. I mean, nothing. Shoot, folks, we used to watch dot-coms spend $13 million on foosball tables....
You forgot the most important similarity: both use the same font on the dustjacket....