All well and good, but suborbital IS (yawn) BTDT...

IF they were flying passengers suborbitally across the Pacific from California to Japan or Australia in 30 minutes, or from the Eastern Seaboard to Europe in 30 minutes, it might be the model for a "new era".

Flying a vehicle that's basically a glorified sounding rocket or some sort of plaything for the super-rich to fly straight up and straight back down without actually doing anything but floating around a few minutes and looking out the window, isn't going to make space any more accessible or affordable.

It's a good start, but it's basically a "reusable Redstone". Not even in the same class as SpaceX's Falcon 9.

Later! OL J R

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