Yesterday, on the centennial of the Wright Brothers' first successful powered manned flight (and landing!), this airplane system made history. But you couldn't tell from the "professional" media coverage.

Professor Hall has a good recap of the event and the [lack of competent] media coverage. In his assessment (and mine) the Washington Post did the best.

Congratulations to Burt Rutan and the teams at Scaled Composites and SpaceDev[*].

[*]Full disclosure -- I own a few hundred shares of SpaceDev stock, the first hundred of which I purchased several years ago when their core mission was to land on and claim ownership an asteroid.

Update: Here's a nice picture; wish there were a little more detail, but still breathtaking.

Update: And here's a video (via Jerry Pournelle).

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