Topic: Who will win the X-Prize? daVinci to launch in September?  (Read 903 times)

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Offline Nemesis

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A Canadian team, the da Vinci project, has developed a ship called Wild Fire and hopes to be ready for its first ascent in September.



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For the conspiracy theorists it should be noted that SpaceShipOne is funded by extremely wealthy ex-Microsoft man Paul Allen while Wild Fire is funded by rival Sun Microsystems and Autodesk. They spent about $3.8m while SpaceShipOne spent about $20m.


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Re: Who will win the X-Prize? daVinci to launch in September?
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2004, 08:46:17 pm »
A little competition can't hurt. Maybe now the attempt will make the first 5 minutes of the major news-casts.
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