Sunday, October 07, 2007
The Sky's Not the Limit For the near-term, the tracks will remain in the atmosphere, but it's not inconceivable that the race eventually will go higher. "The goal is that, in 10 years, we'll race into suborbital space," Bridenstine says. "And in 20 years, we'd want to be racing in orbits around the Earth. Very exciting to think about."