MetaFilter posts tagged with XPrize

Suborbital

Artw — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:04:13 -0800

SpaceX finally makes it to orbit

b1tr0t — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:52:37 -0800

SpaceX's fourth flight was successful. Scaled Composites' X-Prize winning SpaceShipOne made the first privately funded hop into space. SpaceX just took the next big step and inserted a dummy payload into orbit. Next, they will launch the much larger Falcon 9 and later test out the human-carrying Dragon. CEO Elon Musk also enjoys dabbling in banking and exotic electric cars.

To the moon, Google

Roman Graves — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:49:15 -0800

Google wants to send you to the moon.

It's like blogging, but in SPACE

klangklangston — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:41:36 -0800

First blog from space Milestones yet to be reached: First convoluted post about breakup from space; first fringe political views from space; first emo band in space (sponsored by MySpace, natch).

One small st.... yeah yeah

sourbrew — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 21:07:54 -0800

Move over X-Prize - in order to win the next big space prize($50 million) one will have to build a spacecraft capable of taking a crew of no fewer than five people to an altitude of 400 kilometers and complete two orbits of the Earth at that altitude. Then they have to repeat that accomplishment within 60 days.

Booooyah

sourbrew — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 08:56:57 -0800

And so it begins

Has Burt Rutan done it again?

canucklehead — Sun, 20 Apr 2003 07:38:50 -0800

Scaled Composites unveils a privately built spacecraft Could this be the leapfrog event that all of us sci-fi fans have been waiting for? If successful he will open up space for organizations other than the worlds most wealthy governments. Warp speed Mr. Sulu! (sorry getting a little carried away).

zeoslap — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:06:31 -0800

Good Old British Ingenuity ;-) Nasa Schmasha, Steve Bennet is out to claim the X-Prize ($10M) in his cement mixer, i mean um rocket....