(Yeah, yeah, lollyblogging. I hate being sick and, apart from physically, I'm really ready for A & J to find a new home.)

Congratulations to Scaled Composites for successfully claiming the $10M X-Prize today, with a second test flight well over the spec of 62 miles - a tidy 71.5, thank you very much. Well done, guys. Sound bites and so on abound, but I personally like the shots of the pilot (one Brian Binnie) taking a ride on top of the taxiing spacecraft, arms in the air, triumphant.

I'll give any takers ten to one odds that 'Sana will see orbit in my lifetime. (Aria too, but can't you just see 'Sana growing up to be a hotshot pilot?)

The world just got another notch neater today.