Comments on: Reusable space travel is here! http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2004/10/reusable-space-travel-is-here/ Sci-fi, comics, humor, photos...it's all fair game. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:58:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: aeryncrichton http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2004/10/reusable-space-travel-is-here/#comment-574 aeryncrichton Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:40:40 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2004/10/04/reusable-space-travel-is-here/#comment-574 From what I was hearing on the (radio) news this morning, there is also a planned competition (presumably for performance) that will be open to all the teams who had been working towards the X Prize, which I think begins next year. There is also a $25,000,000 prize in the works for <b>orbital</b> spacecraft (I'm sorry, I can't remember the name of the company/person offering the prize). Both of these things are also terrific news, because they increase the chances that the private sector will continue working on this technology. From what I was hearing on the (radio) news this morning, there is also a planned competition (presumably for performance) that will be open to all the teams who had been working towards the X Prize, which I think begins next year. There is also a $25,000,000 prize in the works for orbital spacecraft (I’m sorry, I can’t remember the name of the company/person offering the prize).

Both of these things are also terrific news, because they increase the chances that the private sector will continue working on this technology.

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