re: A clean suborbital spaceship
Looks like the X-33, the hangar queen that NASA pisses away over a billion dollars on and abandoned, flightless. Hope they fare better. Suborbital is more forgiving. Although I'm skeptical about the company's financial resources, I welcome the mention of point to point sub-orbital flight which I think is the follow-on market to sub-orbital space tourism. Suborbital 60 minute NY to Peking flights would change the entire 'airline' industry and have wide social inpact. Just imagine all the French tourists joining their PM here in NH. On 2nd thought...