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October 08, 2005

Countdown To The Cup: Day Two (Friday) Part Two

Personal Spaceflight Symposium Launches The Event

by Aero-News Senior Correspondent Kevin R.C. "Hognose" O'Brien The events of Day Two, as previously recounted here, mostly took place in the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo, NM. The museum and the X-Prize Foundation billed this "X-Prize Education Day," and it was a chance for kids to see -- and, here is the cunning bit, be inspired by -- all kinds of space exhibits.

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Countdown To The Cup: Day Two (Friday) Part One

Where Rockets Going Up Unexpectedly Interfere With Rockets On Schedule

by Aero-News Senior Correspondent Kevin R.C. "Hognose" O'Brien The second day of the Countdown to the X-Prize Cup dawned early -- 0700 Mountain Time, Jim had a deep, deep, deep, background briefing at Las Cruces International with one of the exhibitors.

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Countdown To The Cup: Day One (Thursday)

Personal Spaceflight Symposium Launched The Event

by Aero-News Senior Correspondent Kevin R.C. "Hognose" O'Brien The first day of the X-Prize Cup was the First International Symposium on Personal Spaceflight, which went down exactly as previewed here at Aero-News. Jim Campbell of Aero-News attended most of the panel sessions and was most impressed with Erik Lindbergh's speech. He got many photos, which are available for press use through the X-Prize Cup organization.

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NASA And Zero-G Test Space Shuttle Runway Program

NASA and Zero Gravity Corporation, known as ZERO-G, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., have announced the firm's participation in a pilot program. It will demonstrate expanded access to and use of the space shuttle's runway and landing facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., for non-NASA activities.

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The Rockets Of The Countdown

Countdown To The X-Prize Cup, Of Course...

By Aero-News Senior Correspondent Kevin R.C. "Hognose" O'Brien One of the coolest things about the original X-Prize was the sheer breadth of innovation it spawned, the colorful variety of responses people had to the challenge of a reusable suborbital space vehicle. Many commentators noted the unconventionality of the ultimate winner, the SpaceShipOne/White Knight combination, which resembled the Mercury/Maya combination of a bygone day in concept, but added a bunch of new wrinkles, most importantly "shuttlecock recovery" or as Burt Rutan calls it, "carefree reentry." (By the way, the idea came to Burt as he woke in the middle of the night).

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NASA'S Shuttle Endeavour Comes To Life

Powered Up For First Time In Two Years

Engineers cheered as electricity coursed through Space Shuttle Endeavour Thursday for the first time in two years, signaling the end of the orbiter's major modification period at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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