[Pirate at Forty]

I enjoyed hearing Burt Rutan And Mike Melville give a presentation at Osh Kosh Saturday morning. Rutan said essentially the same thing, A paraphrase "NASA thinks that they must engineer the risk from space travel. Thirty years ago I asked when could the general public expect to fly in space, they replied ' In about thirty years' Lately I asked them again. Again they relied 'In about thirty years' I don't think I want to wait that long."

It's a great presentation that will be included in a Discovery Channel special in a couple of months. The dangers are real, but the adventure and excitement is even more real. Both Rutan and Melville are explorers and adventurers. We need more of their type.....

[KevinDavis]

People like Rutan and Melville made this nation great.