BURT RUTAN TALKS ABOUT the future of space travel, and SpaceshipTwo:

I think the public will be surprised at how large it is. We are building 11-place commuter airliners. If you’re going to send somebody to a resort hotel in orbit, it’s okay to cramp him into something small with a little window. Because when he gets there he has this big spacious hotel, and he gets his view and his weightless experience. But with suborbital spaceflight, your destination has to be your transfer van. We believe the people — and there will be large numbers of them at the cost at which this can be done — they’ll want to float around and look out of large windows facing all directions.

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