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Ronald Gruia

Besides authoring this blog, Ronald is a Senior Strategic Analyst with Frost & Sullivan. Comments are open and unmoderated, although obscene or abusive remarks may be deleted. Opinions expressed by Ronald are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of his employer.

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Sunday, October 3

SpaceShipOne Goes for the Ansari X Prize Tomorrow

by Ronald on Sun 03 Oct 2004 11:58 PM EDT

Last week, SpaceShipOne (the entry funded by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen) made the headlines by successfully completing one of the required two flights to win the coveted Ansari X Prize, a $10 million award conferred to the first privately developed manned rocket to reach space twice within a two week time window. The spaceship can win it all if its scheduled launch tomorrow is successful and it reaches an altitude of at least 98km for the second time since September 29th. Tomorrow's mission timeline is as follows: