Good news, bad news.

By the way, belated congratulations to Burt Rutan, everyone at Scaled Composites, Paul

Allen and his team,
and everyone involved in the SpaceShipOne Project!! They bagged the X-Prize yesterday! Space is now closer than ever!

Thanks NASA, we'll take it from here!



And deepest condolences to the family, relatives and friends of Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, who passed away yesterday at 77.
Gordo was one of the original "Mercury 7" astronauts, and probably the cockiest. (grin)
He was the first astronaut to stay in space for more than 24 hours.
Dennis Quaid portrayed him in the seminal space conquest movie "The Right Stuff".
Godspeed Gordo...