Onward, Christian Astronauts

From Rand Simberg‘s account of a space policy town hall meeting:

One lady declared that we should spend billions of dollars on space, so that unbelievers in Jesus could all be sent to the moon. This was arguably the highlight of the meeting, and I briefly imagined churches passing around collection plates for money to send me to the moon, and then happily recalled the episode of South Park where the church sent missionaries to convert aliens on the planet Marklar and so held a TV funding drive for a spaceship, photon torpedoes etc.

I have a new mission in life.

I will become a televangelist, dedicated to expanding the mission field to other worlds.

Up we go

Scaled Composites did another drop test the other day. There are a couple of new pictures on the site, one showing the engine for the next flight, which will be powered, and the other showing the thermal protection system. Are they going for the prize?