Re: Uses two planes...
No it isn't stunning.
SpaceX is stunning -landing on legs on a barge to reuse the 1st stage is stunning.
The NZ company that is trying to use electric motors to run the turbo pumps to simplify the insanely complex engineering in a rocket engine is stunning.
Doing little more than a 1950s X15 rocket plane just to claim you have "been to space" is not stunning because it doesn't lead anywhere. If you want a highly supersonic trans pacific aeroplane you don't start with a suborbital not-really-spaceflight.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
