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X-Prize Cup Site Chosen: New Mexico

Posted by timothy on from the mutton-stew-and-frybread-and-oxidizers dept.

savuporo writes "MSNBC reports: "The X Prize Foundation and the New Mexico Office of Space Commercialization are joining forces to stage the multifaceted X Prize Cup, a two-week-long event that allows for privately financed, passenger-carrying space vehicles to compete for prizes.' The first Cup is expected to be held summer, 2006, while 2005 will probably see a 'Public Spaceflight Exposition.'"

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  1. Golly by z0ink · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder how many UFO chasers will come out of the woodwork when some metal falls from the sky.

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  2. Cool by use_compress · · Score: 4, Funny

    3rd tier US private industry is catching up to the Chinese government!

  3. Wrong Name! by Pavan_Gupta · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whoa, let's make sure we use the name, "Ansari X-Prize" Hell, if I'd paid my way into that name, I'd be damned annoyed if my name wasn't mentioned!

  4. X-Prize takes the lead by qaffle · · Score: 5, Funny
    Watch, X-Prize contestants are going to make it into space before NASA does again.

    And going up with the Russians doesn't count.

  5. Sheesh. Why not in the United States? by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Funny

    You'd hope they would host this in the United States instead of a foreign country!

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  6. A Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy by Silvrmane · · Score: 5, Funny

    And Santa Fe kinda looks like Mos Eisley as you are driving into it in your Land Speeder. Perfect place for a space port. :)

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  7. Subscriptions? by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Funny
    "New Mexico Magazine"

    Do they mail that to the United States? Sounds interesting.

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  8. Re:Whoa, slow down there... by jjeffries · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a marketing gimmick. They're going to wait for the public outcry then bring it back as "Mexico Classic."

  9. What an Honor! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    To the Governor of New Mexico:

    Dear Sir or Madam,

    Congratulations! New Mexico has been determined to be sufficiently desolate and barren enough that the possibility of launchpad explosions and space debris raining from the sky pose little or no threat to the general population of your great state. Therefore, we are pleased to annouce that we are awarding the X-Prize Competition Site to New Mexico. We also looked at a small, uninhabited atoll in the Pacific Ocean but we found that it would be cost-prohibitive to provide portable toilets at that location on such short notice.

    Yours,

    The X-Prize Competition Site Selection Committee