SpaceShipTwo: Safe?

Virgin and Scaled Composites unveiled their design for the new SpaceShipTwo and its carrier aircraft. The "new" design and I emphasize the word NEW, because well lets just say their design was no departure from SpaceShipOne, so the "unveiling" was nothing special. The new design looks "futuristic" which is what Scaled Composites is known for, but is it worth the money to ride in this?

The price as it stands is $200,000 per person, which is just a tad out of the price range for me, but once again is this a valid price. Well many financial analysts predict that the price will fall to somewhere around $5000 in the first 5 years of service, so truly, why pay $200,000 which is 4000% higher than the expected cost in 5 years? Well if your rich I guess this is affordable.

The thing I find most interesting is that in the same week as all of this PR was released for the new design, Scaled Composites has been fined for failure to properly train their employees in saftey practices. So it costs $200,000 per flight, the vehicle is built by people without proper training... all on top of an aerodynamically unstable vehicle.

The aerodynamics of this vehicle are... at the least, unproven. While the fundamental concept behind it seems fantastic, it appears as though they are moving forward a bit too fast. The test spacecraft SpaceShipOne had a lot of stability problems upon re-entry, to a point where the pilot almost lost control catastrophically. So safe or not?

I think I'll give it a while before I take a flight.