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> http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/06/21/suborbital.test/index.html
> Private craft soars into space, history
> By Michael Coren, CNN
>
> MOJAVE, California (CNN) -- SpaceShipOne left the Earth behind on
> Monday morning and made its indelible entry in the history books as
> the first private spacecraft to carry humans into space. It touched
> down safely at Mojave Airport at 11:15 ET.
>

So maybe one day I'll get to visit space.  That would be very cool.
The project's funding is from Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.  I just
hope Windows isn't powering the systems.  "Uh, Houston, we have the Blue
Screen of Death..."  ;P

And in other news, teleportation is becoming a very tiny reality:
> http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsbeam173853219jun17,0,6842112.story
> A QUANTUM LEAP: Scientists 'beam up' atoms
> COMBINED WIRE SERVICES
> June 17, 2004
>
> It is not quite the "Beam me up, Scotty" teleportation of "Star Trek,"
> but scientists said yesterday they had made properties jump from one
> atom to another without any physical link.
>
> Physicists in the United States and Austria for the first time
> teleported "quantum states" between separate atoms.
>
> The breakthrough may not yet make it possible for people to disappear
> and reappear somewhere else. But it could lead to "quantum computing"
> technology that would make superfast computers.
>