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."

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Do they have the 10 mil?

[netringer]

Burt Rutan has said that he would have claimed the X prize by now, but he wasn't going to persue it further until the US$10M prize was real. They've never gotten the sponsors to put up the money.

Rutan's already flying Proteus is the launch vehicle he plans to use. He's keeping the capsule part secret.