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Tomorrow, SpaceShot, Inc. enters its second month of operations. While I learn to be “P. T. Barnum”, as one of the people at the Space Access conference told me to be, I will provide a monthly retrospective of an insider’s view of building Space-Shot.com. You shall see the Stars belong to the People In November 2005, right around the time I was putting out my second press release and my second letter to the mailing list that was gathered by Rocketplane at Countdown to X Prize Cup and via our initial brochure-ware site, I spoke to Mike Lavigne, SpaceShot, Inc.’s...

Today SpaceShot, Inc. announced the launch of a skill game that will allow people from the middle class to fly to space. You can read about the game in detail at our website, but what follows are some of the challenges in putting this all together in the last year and a half.

There will be a Soyuz launch today and it can be viewed on the web... You can view the launch by clicking here...

SpaceShot is proud to announce a launch team of internationally recognized experts to create a new internet game of skill. The path-breaking tournament will be awarding suborbital spaceflights on the Rocketplane XP. Play starts this autumn to award flights taking place in 2007. SpaceShot will finally achieve the decades-long goal of awarding space trips to people paying under five dollars. "The team we have assembled represents the best in the industry. These are American visionaries. Together, we will bring spaceflight to people of all means," announced SpaceShot founder Dr. Sam Dinkin. "Space is not just for the wealthy!

Oklahoma City, 10/7/05 – Rocketplane Limited, Inc. announces a new alliance with SpaceShot, Inc. to award Rocketplane spaceflights as prizes in upcoming SpaceShot online skill game tournaments. “Space travel should not just be for the wealthy and government astronauts,” announced Sam Dinkin, CEO of SpaceShot, Inc. “For less than $5 and some skill, anyone could be the first on their block to win a trip to space!”