Jeff Foust reports on Burt Rutan’s presentation at the annual symposium of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots last week in LA. Worth a read if you want to get the latest scoop on SpaceShipOne. He saves the most intriguing bit for last:
The final slide of the presentation, put on the screen during a brief question-and-answer session, showed what appeared to be a scaled-up version of the SS1 (see photo). A cutaway showed the cabin, with one pilot and ten passengers (arranged in three rows of three people with the tenth person floating above them.) The illustration was simply captioned ?A Future Space Tourism Ride??