Gosh, doesn't *this* look familiar!
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Journalists work near a life-sized mock-up of S-XXI space ship, foreground, as M-55 carrier aircraft stands behind it at an air base in Zhukovsky, near Moscow, Thursday, March 14, 2002. The S-XXI is being developed by the Maysishchev design bureau which helped build the Soviet Buran space shuttle as a suborbital ship for space tourists. A 3-minute ride into space will cost a would-be space tourist $100,000. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
[url]http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020314/168/197gr.html[/url]
Full story:
[url]http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020314/ap_on_sc/russia_tourist_spaceship_5[/url]
Rutan's company website, which includes information on his Proteus (background image on main screen) payload-carrying aircraft (including a "space plane" just like the Russians') is here: http://[url]http://www.scaled.com/[/url]