Sadly, they discontinued it leaving zero supersonic passenger transports in the world. Imagine how advanced we were in some ways to have had such a fast civilian airplane in 1969. It seems we've regressed nowadays with only trying to build lighter and more fuel-efficient planes that cruise at only 560 mph Short-sighted executives for airlines only see the bottom line but don't realize if you throw money at engineers, they will find a way to have supersonic AND fuel efficient jets. [/Rant]
A really good friend of mine from high school got on ABC using off the shelf tech to launch a balloon into space and then take pictures from there. All in all it took about $150 dollars in parts to do it. Edit (their website on how to do it): http://space.1337arts.com/
Vimeo is a great site. Not over-run with a bunch of crap like youtube. <object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=15683396&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=15683396&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/15683396">3 Years At The Same Place (english version)</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/pierrejolivet">Ramon</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
