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Old 10-23-2010, 10:44 AM
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Default Respect and admiration

Don't know much about Morse, but I admire and respect him and the family for building TV instead of something like this, below, that is only for people who have so much money they don't know what else to do with it.

The Villages is within reach of anyone who works for a living and lives within their means.

"Virgin Galactic's Sir Richard Branson, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and prospective astronauts gathered in the southern New Mexico desert Friday to celebrate the completion of the runway at the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport.

Virgin Galactic is the anchor tenant of the taxpayer-funded spaceport and plans to use the facility to take tourists on what will first be short hops into space. . . .

Tickets for suborbital space rides aboard SpaceShipTwo cost $200,000. The 2½-hour flights will include about five minutes of weightlessness. Some 380 customers have already made deposits totaling more than $50 million, Virgin Galactic officials said Friday.

http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_16407579