IF YOU have an itch to fly into space and half a million dollars to spare,
you may soon be able to nip down to the store and buy a spaceship in kit form.
Once assembled, the craft, called the Kitten, will take you and two friends 200
kilometres up at a top speed of Mach 4. It’s not quite Earth orbit, but who’s
counting?
“It should be as reliable as any other kit—a boat, a helicopter or a
small private sub,” says James Hill, president of Cerulean Freight Forwarding
Company, based in Oroville, Washington, which plans to sell…
