ot: space race

[Pankaj Dhokia <pankaj.dhokia@xxxxxxx>]

not quite HA, but most probably of interest to some.

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John Carmack Of Doom And Quake Fame Joins Space Race 

Armadillo Aerospace, a company organized by John Carmack, who is the
co-founder of Id Software and the programmer behind such popular
computer
game titles as Doom and Quake, has announced its entry into the X-Prize
competition.

Armadillo joined 20 other companies in their effort to get $10 million
in
prize money. To win the prize, the team must build a space vehicle
which
will take 3 passengers 100Km high twice within 2 weeks. 

X-Prize Foundation set the deadline for the competition for January 1,
2005.
The Foundation was founded with hopes of promoting private space travel.
A
market study suggests that by 2021 the demand for suborbital space
travel
will reach $1 billion. 
src: CNN
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