X Prize Race Heats Up

evenprime writes "Armadillo Aerospace have already done a drop test, and Burt Rutan's company Scaled Composites did a second flight test of their launch plane/spacecraft combination on July 3. SC haven't posted the results yet, but when they do you will find them here. Sadly, PanAero doesn't appear to be doing that well. Although I like their "Junkyard Wars" technique, it doesn't look stuffing rockets in the back end of a business jet will build a legitimate contender."

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[Flounder]

So, if I strap a few million bottle rockets to my VW bug, I could get into orbit?? Sure, the union isn't inherently reliable, but the individual components of each certaily are.

Oh, sleep deprivation, how you make Slashdot posts so much more inventive and enjoyable.