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[wibblymat]

The X Prize has been won:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996487

The X Prize was offered to the first private company that could put 3 men
in space, bring them down to Earth, and then do the same feat again within
2 weeks, in the same craft.

Comments

[daishi_]

See my only complaint about this, and I guess this is something that would come in a future version of the competition, is that Spacecraft one isn't ground launched and requires another vessel to take it up a fair distance, and it only atmosphere hopped, which isn't really complete space travel.

[longhairedhippy]

They went into space, didn't they? Surely it counts no matter how you get up there, even if you just rode up a space elevator a la Arthur C Clarke it would still count...

[daishi_]

Yeah I guess. Just wanted this to be more or a re-usable spacecraft experiement rather than a race to space. I know that Spaceship one shows we can make reusable craft, but I guess I wanted the requirements to be a litttle harsher.

[bonedancer]

Well, both bits are reusable. What's the problem?

You're just pissed off because now your "Starfleet History Manual" is going to be reissued, aren't you?

[longhairedhippy]

I'd been keeping an eye on it ever since they made the first flight earlier in the year - it's great news for geeks everywhere.

Now all I have to do is save up about £100k and go talk to that nice Mr. Branson...