Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become future Quotes of the Day.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"Sir Richard’s Virgin Galactic has constructed their passenger version of SpaceShipOne, sold reservations and even constructed a huge carrier aircraft from which to launch. Yet, technical difficulties and delays have kept it from carrying any paying passengers -- as of this writing.
So, in effect, and hopefully not for very long, we now have a SpaceShipNone.
SpaceShipOne itself hangs in the Smithsonian as tourists walk past. I recently heard a small boy ask his daddy, 'What’s that?' as they strolled by it, and the daddy replied, 'Some kind of rocketplane,'” while they simply walked away."

Source: From a retrospective story by ANN Space Correspondent, Wes Oleszewski, bemoaning the lack of commercial space progress in the ten years since the XPrize was won.

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