X-Prize Cup Expo
A showcase of private spaceflight
by Alan Breakstone
by Alan Breakstone
The Ansari X-Prize
Foundation will be holding its first X-Prize Cup Spaceflight EXPO in Las Cruces, New Mexico on October 9th. While no tourist flights to space are possible from Las Cruces this year, the event will showcase post-SpaceShipOne progress in private spaceflight.
The Spaceflight EXPO will include the following activities:
* Multiple flights of Armadillo Aerospace
's vertical take-off/vertical landing rocket vehicle.
* Two flights of XCOR?s EZ-Rocket manned atmospheric rocketplane.
* Full-scale engine firing of Starchaser?s LOX/Kerosene engine, eventually to be used on Starchaser's suborbital tourist craft.
* Drop tests of the DaVinci Starfire vehicle.
* Full-scale replicas of SpaceShipOne, the Canadian Arrow, and other private passenger spacecraft.
More information on the exposition and on attending it are at www.xpcup.com.
The Ansari X-Prize
Foundation will be holding its first X-Prize Cup Spaceflight EXPO in Las Cruces, New Mexico on October 9th. While no tourist flights to space are possible from Las Cruces this year, the event will showcase post-SpaceShipOne progress in private spaceflight. The Spaceflight EXPO will include the following activities:
* Multiple flights of Armadillo Aerospace
's vertical take-off/vertical landing rocket vehicle. * Two flights of XCOR
?s EZ-Rocket manned atmospheric rocketplane. * Full-scale engine firing of Starchaser?s LOX
/Kerosene engine, eventually to be used on Starchaser's suborbital tourist craft. * Drop tests of the DaVinci
Starfire vehicle. * Full-scale replicas of SpaceShipOne
, the Canadian Arrow, and other private passenger spacecraft. More information on the exposition and on attending it are at www.xpcup.com.
