At 60 percent complete, test flights are expected to possibly take place this year, with passenger flights as early as 2010.

And a knock to our current space fleet, Rutan states that SpaceShipOne will be “hundreds” times safer than present space flight – which he compares to commercial aviation of the 1920s.

Read the full New York Times story by John Schwartz.

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