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Canadian Team To Launch X-Prize Attempt Oct. 2

Posted by timothy on from the balloon-ascension dept.

FreeHeel writes "A second team of rocketeers competing for the $10 million Ansari X Prize, a contest for privately funded suborbital space flight, has officially announced the first launch date for its manned rocket. The da Vinci Project, led by Brian Feeney of Toronto, Ontario, said Thursday the group plans to loft its Wild Fire Mark VI spacecraft on Oct. 2, just days after the planned launch of another X Prize contender, the U.S-based SpaceShipOne. The balloon-launched Wild Fire event will be followed by a second launch within two weeks to snag the X Prize purse, according to the plan."

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  1. Crime in Space. by deft · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This must be the first instance of an attempted stellar purse snatching.

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  2. Test Launch by red+floyd · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Has WildFire even done a manned test launch of the thing?

    I know that SS1 has done a full manned test of the profiled mission.

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  3. perhaps they should start with a test flight by Greg@RageNet · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Since they've done very little testing. This is all hype. They are trying to get a little publicity before Rutan sweeps it in a few months..

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