Archive for July 27th, 2004

Go Ansari X Prize contestants

It’s been announced by the X Prize Foundation that the Scaled Composites group (Paul Allen & Burt Rutan) have officially given their 60 day notice and scheduled their first X Prize flight for September 29.

In addition, the Canadian da Vinci team plan to roll out their Wild Fire balloon-launched spacecraft in Toronto on August 5, en route to making their own prize flight attempts.

I’m really excited to see multiple teams going forward and I’m keeping my fingers crossed for the Sept 29 flight.