Posted on 10/19/2006 7:58:48 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Well this is the official live thread for the Wirefly X Prize Cup.
Please post images for those who couldn't view the webcam (i.e. the cubies).
Can't wait!
Same here.. Will be seeing the video shots later on tomorrow.
I'm particularly interested in the lunar lander competition. That should be very interesting. Gotta love the entreprenuerial spirit!!
Only in America....
mookbark
The broadcast has begun and the announcers are stiffs. Oh well. I'm not watching for the on air talent.
Rocket belt demonstration. Coool!!
Can you post pictures for us cubies????
The ribbon cutting ceremony to open the proceedings.
Some of the displays
The Rocketplane mockup.
Xcor's Rocket Racing Plane.
For more pictures go to XPrize Cup Muti-Media Center
The Tether competition is supposedly next. They've been promising it was "immenent" for the last 90 minutes. Technical problems, I imagine.
Can you believe what the pork-barrelers are doing to the NASA-funded
competitive prizes program?
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&dbname=cp109&sid=cp109s0tv8&refer=&r_n=sr280.109&item=&sel=TOC_385521&
"The Committee does not provide any funding in fiscal year 2007 for the
Centennial Challenges program. Funding provided in previous fiscal years for
this program is sufficient for NASA to run a prize based competition, as
well as to verify that NASA will see tangential benefits from running such a
program. Providing additional funds to a program based on prizes only
creates a pot of unused funds while other aspects of NASA's mission are
being cut or delayed due to a lack of funds."
Discussed here:
http://www.spacepolitics.com/archives/001028.html
and indirectly here: http://www.spaceprojects.com/prizes
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