Armadillo will provide the vehicles—vertical takeoff and launch craft based on a concept like the one you see here—and RRL will provide financing. The plan is to start flights in 2010. Granger Whitelaw, the Rocket Racing League’s CEO, is apparently betting that in a couple years there will still be plenty of people eager to spend $100,000 on a trip to the edge of space. Will he win that bet? We have absolutely no idea.
