Posted on 10/09/2005 7:50:38 PM PDT by KevinDavis
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico - – Despite its grand finale ending with an unexpected bang, the Personal Spaceflight Expo held here today as part of the Countdown to the X Prize Cup was a success, attracting thousands of onlookers who explored space capsules, rubbed elbows with astronauts and watched high-performance rocketry shoot through the sky.
They even watched a few mishaps in what is billed as the emergence of rocketry for the masses and public space travel.
The whole event, which ran from October 6 - 9, was organized by the X Prize Foundation and hosted by the State of New Mexico.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Interesting event at Las Cruces. I'm going out there next Sunday to White Sands. Missed the event by a week. Didn't know Las Cruces had events of that order. Cool.
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