Or unless something goes wrong with SpaceShipOne or White Knight, although that doesn't seem particularily likely right now.<br /><br />caper, to answer whether Virgin will fly his own spaceship, I guess the question is who you really mean by "Virgin". Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin, will probably fly on it, but doubtless lacks the expertise to pilot it. (Few private entrepreneurs are experienced with high-performance aircraft.) Burt Rutan, who is not a Virgin employee but the brains behind Scaled Composites and SpaceShipOne, has said that he intends to fly on SpaceShipOne someday but hasn't said whether he'll pilot it. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>