This may be old news, but I just saw a news report about it.
John Carmack has a new venture going:
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home .
Apparently they are getting close to flying.
Dang, they have 'news' that goes back to 2000.
But, as Johnny Carson used to say, "I did not know that."