[RightWhale]

There are two ways to go about flying private ships to space and back. One way is in secret, the other way is with the press watching and reporting. I hope secret, private progress is way beyond the public, X-prize progress, because it is otherwise going to be a long time to wait for this and it may not happen at all. There may not be a lot of time to waste because the regulatory environment can easily keep up with the current pace.

[Coyoteman]

Good old Yankee ingenuity may not be enough this time. The revenoors and the chairborne may have gotten the upper hand.

As Heinlein noted, the language of space might not be English!