Success!

SpaceShipOne has won the X-Prize following a successful -- and apparently flawless -- second flight this morning. I don't have much else to say on this subject that I haven't said already. Oddly enough, this news is something of a let-down for me because it all happened so according-to-plan. Not that I wanted to see the vehicle explode or anything, but it just seemed to be so... easy. Even a little ho-hum, as if this privately funded civilian spacecraft thing has already become old hat. But then that's the way we want it to be, isn't it? Nice and easy, nothing remarkable. Easy enough for an ordinary person to book a flight to the orbiting Hilton for the weekend. The future is coming, my friends...