The most important space event since the moon landing : the winning of the X-prize.
I stayed up until 0300 last night in a vain attempt to see TV coverage of it. The Webcast was jammed solid, overloaded here.
We get a different feed here from the US.
CNN - nothing. MSNBC - nada. BBC World - zip. Local Channels - tiddly-squat. Eventually, half an hour after the event, BBC world had a 12-second story on it, with 5 seconds of video showing the landing. The rest were rabbiting on about share prices, company takeovers, fashion accessories, holiday destinations or some such guff.
*SIGH*
Oh yes, according to Rand Simberg of Transterrestrial Musings (who knows the pilot), SpaceShipOne broke the 1963 altitude record set by the X-15 . And it's the 47th anniversary of the launching of Sputnik.
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