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05/08/2004: "Da Vinci going after the X-Prize"
The Canadian da Vinci team has announced today that it will be sending its Wild Fire VI spacecraft into space on 2 October 2004 to compete for the Ansari X-Prize. The team is thus in a tight race against against Scaled Composites, which successfuly tested SpaceShipOne on 21 July (see my post). Both crafts are using similar engine technologies and are both launched from space (from a plane in the case of SpaceShipOne and from a balloon for Wild Fire).
With the fully manned trials announced for October, affordable commercial space travel is getting ever closer! Orbital holiday? Book soon!
>BBC News Online
