Ssshh - its a secret

Richard Branson's Rocket Launcher, originally uploaded by joe_stremph.

Richard Branson's newest toy (complements of Burt Rutan & Scaled Composites) - is hiding in a hanger outside of Phoenix.

It diverted there after a warning light came on - while they were on the way to overfly the groundbreaking on the Spaceport in NM.

It is now scheduled to leave sometime tomorrow morning and the crew would prefer no one take pictures of it on the ground. Waaah!

[UPDATE - 5:27pm MST - the unscheduled landing made the local paper's website, so I guess it isn't much of a secret anymore. The guy who took the picture that's not shown above any more (it was being used by another web site w/o giving Joe credit, so the picture got removed) - made the local news Friday night.]