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Old May 15th 04, 11:08 AM
Bruce Hoult
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Default Private Rocket SpaceShipOne Makes Third Rocket-Powered Flight

In article ,
(Al Jackson) wrote:

h (Rand Simberg) wrote in message
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On 14 May 2004 02:09:52 -0700, in a place far, far away,
(Al Jackson) made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

The company is not
in the competition for the Ansari X Prize.


Then why are they listed on the X-prize page as one of the competition
teams?


They're not.


If on the Team page you count up 6 from the bottom, who's name is that?


http://www.xprize.org/teams/teams.html


That's Scaled Composites, who are certainly in the X-Prize -- in fact
they are the odds on favourite at the moment.

You, however, were asking about XCOR Aerospace, who are not competing
for the X-Prize.

I quote your previous message in full:

(Rusty B) wrote in message
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Private Rocket SpaceShipOne Makes Third Rocket-Powered Flight


XCOR Aerospace, also of Mojave, California, announced in April it had
received a Reusable Launch Vehicle mission license from the FAA's
Office of Commercial Space Transportation. That license is the first
for a reusable launch vehicle (RLV) that is launched and recovered
from the ground. Additionally, XCOR is now authorized to test RLV
technologies prior to suborbital passenger travel. The company is not
in the competition for the Ansari X Prize.


Then why are they listed on the X-prize page as one of the competition teams?


OK?

-- Bruce