Rich, The ship was indeed powered on Laughing gas - nitrous oxide I believe. They also used parts from WW2 planes and things for the body of the craft. It was very cool and different thinking than the governments "lets see if they will let us pay $5000. for a toilet seat" mentality. Everyone should catch the second showing tonight. I believe its on the Science channel and Discovery. It will be on the Discovery channel at 4 pm eastern time today. Should be 2 - 4 pm MST. Lisa Zeigler www.johnstelescopes.com www.mirrorkits.com An amateur rocket friend of mine was telling me yesterday at lunch that Rutan's rocket ran on recycled tire rubber and laughing gas! Doesn't sound too exotic or expensive to me, but I'm sure he was oversimplifying it just a bit. Can you (or others in the know on this list) tell me more about it (risks, costs, etc.)? Sounds very interesting to me. -Rich __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com