SpaceShipOne, the civilian spaceship designed by Burt Rutan, has made it into space. It looks like Rutan's probably going to win the X-Prize, but now there're plans for an X-Prize Cup, so that there will still be some competition for all of the other teams that were competing for the X-Prize after Rutan wins it.
Posted by Fatboy at June 21, 2004 12:41 PMGood for him- his team spent $20M on this, but at least they got $10M of it back by winning that prize. Bonus points for the freaky design.
Posted by: Rick at June 21, 2004 03:42 PMThis thread's probably about to disappear, but here's a link to a site with a lot of good pictures of Rutan's recent flight (from the ground), and a short little write-up about it.
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/SpaceShipOne2004/
