The band is getting back together: Seven years after winning the $10 million Ansari X Prize, software billionaire Paul Allen and aerospace guru Burt Rutan are teaming up with SpaceX and other top-flight rocketeers to create an air-launched orbital delivery system. They say the venture will require the construction of the largest aircraft ever flown.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... ch-venture?

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I hope this actually, and forgive the pun, gets off the ground.
The system seems perfectly feasible, as much so as anything being done today, and would eventually create a relatively cheap way to get stuff from here to there.

Loved the line in the video.. "Any Orbit, Any time". What a great slogan that would make!

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