It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Stratolaunch!
I have to admit, when I first read about this I thought it was just a White Knight clone. True, White Knight is cool, but a second one would be not so much.
Then I saw the proposed size of this thing! Wow!
This is gonna be really, really cool.
Source: SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration
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Pretty interesting stuff!
Nice post! 🙂