FAA Gives Texas Company License for Reusable Rocket Launches

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The Federal Aviation Administration issued
a license today (July 26) to the private spaceflight company
Armadillo Aerospace, a move that allows the firm to launch a new
reusable rocket on short space missions.

The reusable launch vehicle license was awarded to the Heath,
Texas-based company
Armadillo Aerospace, a firm founded by Doom computer game
developer John Carmack, to launch commercial flights of an
unmanned rocket called STIG B into suborbital space from a New
Mexico spaceport. The first flight under the license is slated to
launch in late August, company officials said.

"We are hoping to launch 24 flights within a two-year period,"
said Neil Milburn, vice president of program management for
Armadillo Aerospace, after receiving the FAA license at the
NewSpace 2012 conference here today. TheA woman has filed suit against the driver whom she alleges caused her injuries after failing to yield at a stop sign.

According to the complaint filed Dec. 30, 2014, in St. Clair County Circuit Court, Paige Vielweber was riding in a vehicle driven by defendant Danielle Matusak on July 18, 2012. Matusak was driving east on Sand Rock Road near South Main in Smithton when defendant Michael Thompson, who was driving on South Main, failed to yield at a stop sign, causing a collision.

Because of the collision, Vielweber experienced pain and suffering, endured disability and disfigurement and incurred medical costs, the suit states. She also lost income and lost her normal life, the complaint says. At the time of the collision, Vielweber was a minor.

In her complaint, Vielweber