What happened to the privately funded space shuttle thing?

What you saw was a 3 seat prototype

He has now built the first 7 seat production model.

The carrier plane has 4 engines and has been well tested, the rocket has made at least 2 test flights (captive only)

The drop test and glide recovery will happen soon

Don't know when the first power test is but probably this year

SpaceShipTwo (SS2) was officially unveiled to the public on Monday, 7 December 2009, at the Mojave Air and Spaceport in California. The Virgin Galactic spaceline plans to operate a fleet of five of these craft in passenger-carrying private spaceflight service starting no earlier than 2011. A ticket costs $200,000 USD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShip_Two

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Burt Rutan and his whiz kids are working and making visible progress. Interesting that they did their first space ship project for less than it costs for one shuttle launch! Go Burt, Go Branson

Probably realized it wasn't going to be a profitable venture and cut their losses. Edit: Guess they are still going to do it. It is a bankruptcy in waiting, imo.