1 posted on
03/31/2004 2:29:05 PM PST by
presidio9
To: presidio9
I have been keeping an eye on this effort for quite a while. It is good to see the pioneering spirit is not dead. My hat is off to every team and I wish all of them the very best.
2 posted on
03/31/2004 2:40:42 PM PST by
Army Air Corps
(To increase the power of the State over the individual is a crime against Humanity.)
To: presidio9
3 posted on
03/31/2004 2:41:13 PM PST by
jdege
To: presidio9
One of the competitors fired their 6-ton rocket motor this week. It went pretty well. SC seems furthest along, but they could be beat by a ground-launch rocket.
5 posted on
03/31/2004 2:48:20 PM PST by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
To: presidio9
I dunno why, but I've been pulling for Armadillo Aerospace all along. Hell, how can you
not pull for a company that's got this little guy as their offical mascot?
To: presidio9
bump
8 posted on
03/31/2004 3:51:13 PM PST by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: presidio9
"Build a spacecraft capable of taking three passengers 62.5 miles (101 kilometers) above the planet, then make a second successful suborbital trip within two weeks. "Then the REAL space race will start between China and Japan to see which country can rip-off the design first and mass produce their own spaceships at half the cost.
9 posted on
03/31/2004 5:03:20 PM PST by
bayourod
(We can depend on Scary Kerry's imaginary foreign leaders to protect us from terrorists.)
To: presidio9
The prize should've gone up with time. Should be $25+ million now.
With just interest. But I'd suspect if they'd made it more known, it would've gotten a lot more endorsements.
However, since Paul Allen is funding SpaceshipOne thing, I doubt it's all about cash.
11 posted on
03/31/2004 5:40:38 PM PST by
Monty22
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