SpaceShipOne made it!

[Timstone]

Please forgive me for saying this.
I've known of this project for quite some time now. I can't say I've followed it very closely. It's good to see it finaly comming to an end. I hope the Rutan wins. He's one of the coolest planebuilders around. Go Burt!
No flames so far, heh.

Here are the flames you've been waiting for.
This flimsy "spaceship", if you can call it that, is not very cool. It looks stupid, amateuristic and far tooo small. Okay, I like the design, it's better then the boeing 7's (they all look the same), but it still doesn't look like a military grade battlecruiser.
Yeah, I know it was a contest for CIVILIANS. But still. Why don't they just put the hands together (form a huge corporation) and develop something like an extension for the ISS. From there you can build, launch and recover spacecraft. Hell, you can even launch tourists in space (don't get too close to the copper bully). I think this contest has a too narrow field of vission. Their goal is too limited.

Please don't take offense of this message, this is just my vision.