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"SpaceShipOne captures X Prize"
Score: 100%
SpaceShipOne captures X Prize: Yeah, baby. What a great headline. SpaceShipOne climbed into space for the second time in a week to claim the $10 million Ansari X Prize. X Prize officials said the privately funded craft reached 368,000 feet -- well into space -- Monday to win the $10 ...
Deane | October 4, 2004 | in "Space"
X Prize To Target Auto Industry
Score: 97%
Surprise, surprise, surprise! The X Prize foundation announced last week that it created a new prize program targeting the automotive industry. Mark Goodstein, one of the founders of GoTo.com, has been hired to coordinate the new X Prize. "The X PRIZE is about changing paradigms," explains Goodstein. "The current paradigm ...
Dave | March 13, 2006 | in "Vehicles"
See also: X Prize, Ansari
The X-Prize is Just The Beginning
Score: 95%
CNN.com is reporting that Peter Diamandis, who brought us the X-Prize, plans to continue the program on an annual basis to keep innovators innovating. It will now be known as the X Prize Cup: The first X Prize Cup will be held in 2005-06 at New Mexico's White Sands Missile ...
Dave | October 5, 2004 | in "Space"
Party At Burt's Place
Score: 88%
Burt Rutan and company dropped by St. Louis Saturday to pick up their check from the Ansari X-Prize folks. "Eight years ago, we stood here and said one day someone is going to do something no one's ever done before," said Doug King, president of the Science Center. The X ...
Joe | November 8, 2004 | in "Space"
See also: X-Prize, Scaled
SpaceShipOne Vies for X-Prize
Score: 87%
Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne made its first X-Prize attempt this morning. Early measurements indicate that the craft made it to space, but it did so rifled-bullet style, rolling rapidly. The engines were shut down 11 seconds early as a result. A sudden roll due to a stuck actuator had also caused ...
Joe | September 29, 2004 | in "Space"
See also: Scaled, SpaceShipOne, X-Prize
Scaled Composites Plans First Private Space Shot
Score: 80%
Scaled Composites, the X-Prize competitor funded by Microsoft mogul Paul Allen, and led by aviation uber-genius Burt Rutan, has scheduled a test flight that, if successful, will be the first space launch in history by the private sector. SpaceShipOne will rocket to 100 kilometers (62 miles) into sub-orbital space above ...
Joe | June 2, 2004 | in "Space"
We could only be so lucky
Score: 72%
This is a quote from a post one year ago today. Do you suppose the guys at Ansari X-Prize might be able to provide some incentive to speed this project up a bit? Gas was at $1.94 today.
Deane | October 7, 2005 | in "Vehicles"
SpaceShipOne Flight This Morning
Score: 68%
Just a reminder that SpaceShipOne lifts off from Mohave Spaceport at 10 a.m. EST this morning. It hasn't been decided if the craziest senior citizen in history, Mike Melvill, will pilot this time. (However, he's done the last two, so I really can't imagine them putting someone with no experience ...
Deane | October 4, 2004 | in "Space"
Over One Billion Served
Score: 67%
Early yesterday morning Apple sold its 1 billionth song through iTunes Music Service. The billionth song ”Speed of Sound” was purchased as part of Coldplay s “X&Y” album by Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan and as the grand prize winner he will receive a 20-inch iMac, 10 fifth generation iPods ...
Dave | February 24, 2006 | in "Temple of Mac"
See also: iTunes, iPod, IMS, Apple
One-upping Ansari
Score: 67%
Remember the Ansari X Prize that SpaceShip One took last month? Robert Bigelow, a Las Vegas hotel magnate and founder of Bigelow Aerospace, has offered $50 million to the first private venture that can put "a crew of no fewer than five people to an altitude of 250 miles (400 ...
Dave | November 26, 2004 | in "Other"
Is it a Pickup or a Vegetable?
Score: 67%
The Arizona Republic has a story about a high school physics class that modified a Chevy pickup to not only run on hydrogen, but also to produce its own hydrogen, requiring only sunlight and water. While it's mainly a rough test mule, and can produce enough fuel on its own ...
Dave | October 7, 2004 | in "Vehicles"
To the Moon!
Score: 65%
Well, maybe not that far. Yet. The FAA on Wednesday licensed the first private rocket, and has given the green light for a real sub-orbital space flight. Burt Rutan and his California-based Scaled Composites have built SpaceShipOne, a funny looking rocket-powered plane that Burt hopes will usher in "a renaissance ...
Dave | April 8, 2004 | in "Space"
SpaceShipThree will go all the way around
Score: 65%
Virgin Galactic has stated that if it's current planned craft, SpaceShipTwo, is successful, they'll try to build an orbital vehicle, SpaceShipThree. Orbital vehicle SpaceShipThree (SS3) will be developed by space tourism company Virgin Galactic and Mojave-based SpaceShipTwo (SS2)-developer Scaled Composites, if the planned SS2 suborbital service is successful, says Virgin ...
Joe | August 25, 2005 | in "Space"
See also: Burt Rutan, SpaceShipOne, Scaled Composites, Virgin Galactic
Good Geek TV Night
Score: 64%
I've got a bad cold, so my butt hit the couch tonight, and hasn't moved much. Fortunately, it was a good night to be stuck in front of the TV. Discovery Channel ran Corvette: Rebuilding an Icon, which covered the design, testing, and release of the new C6 Corvette. The ...
Joe | September 29, 2004 | in "Total Geek"
See also: TV, Discovery Channel, Mythbusters, Corvette
Virgin Galactic
Score: 64%
Virgin Galactic: Richard Branson, that hot air balloning nut and playboy of the airline business, has created a new company to offer paid spaceflights. He's entered a deal with Scaled Composites to license the technology behind SpaceShipOne. By the end of the decade, Virgin Galactic the most exciting development ...
Deane | September 28, 2004 | in "Space"