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Yee, you are correct about the Arthur Clarke novel (which also happens to have been his last Hugo Award-winning novel).

I'm not used to playing a mere supporting role in a space-related thread. Go ahead and have your intelligent physics discussion. Jack go home now.

Quick, somebody tell Arthur C. Clarke! :) Nice post, Andrew.

As a side note, the ground rules for the X-Prize are that a privately funded and made manned spacecraft must accommodate three people on a suborbital hop at about fifty miles altitude. Then, after returning, the spacecraft and crew must repeat the maneuver no more than two weeks later. The first...

Damn it, Brian, I debated whether or not to post this information, deciding against it for fear the HTF populace would come to think of me as a one-note wonder. As for who's funding this particular vehicle, it's Burt Rutan and his Scaled Composites company, and it was my understanding that...