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« Reply #30 on: October 03, 2004, 11:04:36 PM »
The second qualifying flight will begin at 7am PST (10am EST).

Burt Rutan said on CNN tonight that the $10 million X-Prize will recover 40% of their investment.
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« Reply #31 on: October 04, 2004, 07:55:44 AM »
I'm stuck at work again.

Keep me posted!
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« Reply #32 on: October 04, 2004, 09:20:48 AM »
White Knight & SS1 are in the air and on their way up to 50,000ft. Mike Melville is at the controls of White Knight this time, Brian Binnie is the pilot of SS1.
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« Reply #33 on: October 04, 2004, 10:04:26 AM »
SS1 launched successfully and it's on it's way back... no official word yet on whether it reached the winning altitude, but it looks like they did.

The SS1 didn't roll this time, but it still had some "wobble".
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« Reply #34 on: October 04, 2004, 10:05:56 AM »
Miles O'Brien just reported that the X-Prize organization has officially confirmed their altitude... they've won!  :D

They also broke the altitude record set by the X-15.
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« Reply #35 on: October 04, 2004, 10:08:04 AM »
Thanks for the updates Kel!
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« Reply #36 on: October 04, 2004, 10:14:58 AM »
No problem!

SS1 is on the ground. :)
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« Reply #37 on: October 04, 2004, 10:26:03 AM »
Watching the webcast this morning.  I think they said SS1 made it to 340,000 feet.

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« Reply #38 on: October 04, 2004, 10:49:26 AM »
I'm watching the X-Prize webcast now... Brian Binnie just said the unofficial altitude is 368,000ft.
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« Reply #39 on: October 04, 2004, 11:23:21 AM »
Great news!  :mrgreen:
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« Reply #40 on: October 04, 2004, 01:03:06 PM »
It's official now, SS1 won-  the max altitude was 112km (367,442ft).
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« Reply #41 on: October 04, 2004, 01:09:14 PM »
Nice banner they put on the Ansari homepage :)
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« Reply #42 on: October 04, 2004, 02:55:17 PM »
The x-prize speakers were better this time.  No visible fights in the background this time! :lol:
I thought Rutan's first words at the press conference would be "Show me the money!" :lol:
The x-prize people will hand over the check sometime in November.
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« Reply #43 on: October 04, 2004, 03:20:32 PM »
Lucky bastard.  I really want to be in any of the spacecraft designer ( / Astronaut, what I really want) shoes/boots.

By the way, what about the other designs, so they don't get any money then?
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« Reply #44 on: October 04, 2004, 04:43:05 PM »
Nope, just the one that did it first. But I'm sure there will be other prizes to be won. I believe someone already put money on getting a craft into orbit.
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