Leonard David has a good overview of the Space Access conference a week and a half ago. It includes a couple wrap-up quotes from yours truly.

A sub-scale prototype of Walker’s ultimate dream machine is under fabrication. In this way, a track record of safety can be achieved, he said, while upping the height reached in bit by bit ballistics.

“I feel really good about the fact that I’m funding this project. There is no sponsor or investors. I don’t have anybody pulling my chain telling me what to do or where to go,” Walker said. “I figure if I survive this thing?I can just about do anything I want. If I don’t survive it, I don’t have to pay taxes anymore. So it’s a win-win situation,” he concluded.

Check it out.