2012? That’s just around the corner. And it just can’t land there, it has to move around and do stuff like installing death rays or, more likely, hunting rocks. I would imagine that’s a tall order to fill, considering I haven’t heard of any private efforts to do so yet.
Not that everyone is running stuff past me (yet). But before the Ansari X-Prize, I had at least heard of private companies that were planning to build low Earth orbit lifters.
UPDATE: A personal hero, Red Whittaker from CMU has plans underway. Sweeeet.