This does not include the 1950 and 1960s budgets for the Dynasoar, ISINGLASS, Rheinberry, and any 21st-century spaceplane project which might emerge under Falcon. He told the United States Congress in 2001 that all the United States had in return for those billions of dollars was "one crashed vehicle, a hangar queen, some drop-test articles and static displays". Falcon was allocated US$170 million for budget year 2008. HyperSoar The HyperSoar was an American hypersonic aircraft project developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). It was to be capable of flying at around Mach 12 (9,200 mph, 14,700 km/h), allowing it to transit between any two points on the globe in under two hours. The HyperSoar was predicted to be a passenger plane capable of skipping outside the atmosphere to prevent it from burning up in the atmosphere. A trip from Chicago to Tokyo (10,123 kilometers) would take 18 skips, or 72 minutes. It was planned to use hydrocarbon-based engines outside the atmosphere and experimental jet engine technology with testing to begin by 2010. Later, the Hypersoar concept was acquired from LLNL by DARPA, and in 2002 it was combined with the USAF X-41 Common Aero Vehicle to form the FALCON program. FALCON The overall FALCON (Force Application and Launch from CONtinental United States) program announced in 2003 had two major components: a small launch vehicle for carrying payloads to orbit or launching the hypersonic weapons platform payload, and the hypersonic vehicle itself. Small Launch Vehicle The DARPA FALCON solicitation in 2003 asked for bidders to do development work on proposed vehicles in a first phase of work, then one or more vendors would be selected to build and fly an actual launch vehicle. Companies which won first phase development contracts of $350,000 to $540,000 in November 2003 included: AirLaunch LLC, Reno Nevada Andrews Space Inc., Seattle Washington Exquadrum Inc., Victorville California. KT Engineering, Huntsville Alabama Lockheed Martin Corp., New Orleans Louisiana Microcosm Inc., El Segundo California Orbital Sciences Corp., Dulles Virginia Schafer Corp., Chelmsford Massachusetts Space Exploration Technologies, Hawthorne California Hypersonic Weapon System The first phase of the hypersonic weapon system development was won by three bidders in 2003, each receiving a $1.2 to $1.5 million contract for hypersonic vehicle development: Andrews Space Inc., Seattle, Wash. Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Palmdale, Calif. Northrop Grumman Corp., Air Combat Systems, El Segundo, Calif. Lockheed Martin received the only Phase