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SpaceShipOne and Wild Fire to Go For the Gold

Posted by michael on from the ken-jennings-is-going-to-win-that-much-anyway dept.

Fizzleboink writes "Space.com reports that with the upcoming January 1, 2005 deadline for the $10 million Ansari X Prize, Rutan and his team have given their official 60 day notice. Brian Feeney, leader of the Canadian da Vinci Project also reported today that his team is rolling out on August 5 with the balloon-lofted Wild Fire rocket."

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  1. Canadian Content by edwardog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Glad to see that there's some Canadian content! Hope it doesn't turn into another Avro Arrow...

    1. Re:Canadian Content by DeeBs · · Score: 4, Funny

      It figures. Rutan et all have a sleek, high tech rubber composite powered spaceship carried by a state of the art high altitude airplane. We have a kerosene powered rocket lifted into the air by a balloon.

  2. Not a Register reprint? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Finally! something that's not just a The Register reprint...

  3. YAY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    something to take my mind off of the perils of society. A good ol' boomin' rocket shitfest. Competition = good.

  4. Re:DaVinci by Sgt+York · · Score: 3, Funny

    Take a joke, man. I'm from Texas, so I take 10x as much crap about that as any Canadian. And most of that is not in good humor. I know a lot of Canadians, and they're not all that bad. For Canadians (JOKE AGAIN!!!!)

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  5. Re:DaVinci by kfg · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, but if Burt loses we can. . .blame Canada.

    KFG

  6. Re:Da Vinci Tests? (LINK IS HERE) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    well it's not your fault that slashdot doesn't come with a frontpage express editor ;-)

  7. Re:Wild Fire Stats by corngrower · · Score: 2, Funny
    the da Vinci rocket uses an inflated shuttlecock

    Maybe this is the thing that is used to mate the Shuttle to the 747 that caries it from Edwards AFB back to Florida on occasion.

  8. Re:And James van Allen doesn't get it. by norkakn · · Score: 2, Funny

    That would be the crappiest job though, you'd be flown everywhere at a moments notice and then have to take the slow way back.

  9. da Vinci Project has only spent $337,000?! by theluckyleper · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looks like it's largely a volunteer project, on the cheap...

    I wonder if those are Canadian dollars, too.

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