Sub-Orbital License Granted to Scaled Composites

The FAA has granted Scaled Composites, the most promising contender for the X-Prize, a sub-orbital license:

The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced it has issued the world’s first license for a sub-orbital manned rocket flight.

The license was issued April 1 by the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation to Scaled Composites of Mojave, Calif., headed by aviation record-holder Burt Rutan, for a sequence of sub-orbital flights spanning a one-year period.