On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 06:23:24 GMT, (Derek
Lyons) wrote:

Also, the press release states that "Based on the success of the June
space flight attempt, SpaceShipOne will later compete for the Ansari X
Prize,", leading me to conclude that this flight is not part of the
competition.

....On the other hand, the fact that whoever pilots the damn thing will
make it up there first may just make the X-Prize qualifications moot.
Ergo, if someone gets up there regardless of whether they kissed
X-Prize judges' butt, they still got up there *first*, and that's all
that really counts as Gagarin proved a while back.

OM

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