History part 2

Space ship one made the winning flight for the ansari X-Prize. On the one hand I'm super glad. It's a real milestone in human history. It also brings me one step closer to my dream of seeing the earth from space and experiencing true weightlessness.

I'm sad too though. There were two Canadian ventures, one of which was orginially going to launch on October 2, but it was delayed for some reason. It used a helium balloon to carry the rocket component up tens of thousands of feet for a drop launch. Its a neat idea because it cuts down on cost for fuel consumption a lot. Does make the launch much more weather dependant though. It would have been cool for a Canadian group to be the winner. I hope their efforts aren't scrapped with the loss of the prize though. There were lots of teams competing... I really hope they all continue, seeing reaching space a more important goal than the prize. Having one private company in space and selling their stuff to Virgin airlines for a comercial space flight touristy thing is cool, having like 10 companies is even cooler. I think maybe if we put more people in space, we'll be more likely to start looking around out there more seriously.

Anyway, its still cool, the next couple years are gonna be huge for anyone with the vision to pay attention to them.