Once we took off. climbed to altitude and settled into the
seldom-used Plaza Transition over SJU -- the winds were blowing
from the north that day, which almost never happens -- I turned my
attention to the GPS.
"We already have a simulator set up. In the simulator,
SpaceShipTwo already flies better than SpaceShipOne did."
Source: The world's first commercial astronaut,
Mike Melvill, during an EAA conference call last week, saying Burt
Rutan and his company, Scaled Composites, are already hard at work
developing the next-generation of suborbital space vehicle.