X Prize Has New Competitors

An anonymous reader writes "According to space.com, there are four new competitors in the X Prize competition. For those of you living under a rock, the X Prize competition is where people are competing for a 10 million dollar paycheck for creating a reusable spacecraft and using it twice within two weeks. X Prize officials are saying they expect to award the prize money within a year or two."

Comments

Re:Unbelievable

[WolfWithoutAClause]

2 posts, both modded up. Why cant all slashdot discussions be like this?

Not even this one. Because you had to go and post ;-)

Terms and conditions?

[The Masked Fruitcake]

Alas, I was disappointed to find no easy money after investigating the X-Prize Guidelines. Specifically, item 5 seems to disqualify the capitalists among us who would be tempted to pay somebody $1 million just for taking a quick little ride in a craft that looks suspiciously like the ammunition for a very large-scale potato gun. Net gain of $8 million, minus what it took to construct the cannon and retrieve the projectile and clean it out for use by vict^H^H^H^Hbrave individual #2!