Glad to see this. It's an enormous engineering challenge and STEM outreach/education is a large part of the project. I went to see Thrust SSC, its predecessor, being built when I was a kid. Hugely ...

It looks like something NASA would aim at the sky and launch into orbit but no, it’s a car. And by the time its builders’ blast it across a desert in South Africa next year, they hope to set the land ...

Are there some practical implications of developing this technology or is this just for bragging rights? I'm trying to decide how much I should care about this. I'm not knocking anyone who wants to ...