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by Mike Masnick




X-Prize Contestants Ready To Go

from the watch-out-above-and-below dept

It seems that at least two teams competing for the X-Prize (private groups of people trying to launch people to the edge of space, twice within a two week period) are just about ready to go. The first team is expected to launch within a few months, and the prize coordinator believes there will definitely be a winner within a year. The big question, though, is will there be any fatalities between now and when the prize is awarded?

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    Sep 30th, 2003 @ 2:53am
  • My money is on Rutan...

    by Anonymous Coward

    ...the McCormick guy is just going to burn himself badly when he cracks a peroxide tank after crashing nose first into the ground.

    I doubt he or his trained monkey will want to make a second flight within three weeks.

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