Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Problems with first private spaceflight

It turns out that some of the problems Mike Melvill had during yesterday's flight were potentially catastrophic. "Until the team fully understands exactly what went wrong during the flight, he [Burt Rutan] said, they will not go ahead with the pair of flights needed to claim the $10 million Ansari X-Prize."
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