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"...all these worlds..." is a blog by David Hitt. It covers space exploration, decent science fiction, humor (by its very nature), and whatever else I happen to find cool. (Formerly "You Must Fight The Bear")
Name: David Hitt About Me: Inspiring the next generation of explorers... See my complete profile
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:: Friday, May 28, 2004 ::
Unofficial Spaceflight?
Per HobbySpace: ... John Carmack (of Armadillo Aerospace) posted a note on the aRocket forum that he expects that before Scaled tries an official X PRIZE flight, they will "will fly a single passenger without ballast for the other two first, which will give them the "first commercial astronaut" glory, and let them know if they actually have the performance to add the extra 400 pounds for the X-Prize flights after that."... If this were the case, Scaled would presumably be exempt from the 60 day advance notice requirement to publicly announce any upcoming attempts at winning the prize for such a flight. The 60-day requirement means that such prime dates as the Fourth of July or the July 20 Apollo 11 anniversary are already out of the question for a prize attempt, but such dates could presumably still be used for a non-prize flight. Scaled has thus far prefered to make no previous announcements of upcoming flights, and this would also allow them, if they were so included, to make their first spaceflight with no previous announcement.