http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/04/22/brief-friday-space-access-summary/ Space tourism, public space travel, and the beginnings of a new industry Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:03:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/04/22/brief-friday-space-access-summary/#comment-26 Personal Spaceflight » Brief Saturday Space Access overview Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:52:51 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/04/22/brief-friday-space-access-summary/#comment-26 [...] John Gedmark of the X Prize Foundation talked about the upcoming X Prize Cup 2006 in October in Las Cruces, NM. The event will feature NASA’s Lunar Lander Challenge for developers of vehicles that can vertically take off, hover, translate, and land. (See yesterday’s post about Armadillo’s plans for the competition.) The exact rules and even prize amounts are in flux, and Gedmark would only say that a final announcement would be made about the competition “soon”. The XP Cup will also be the home of the Reusable Rocket challenge, for launching, recovering, and reusing sounding rockets or VTVL vehicles. Rules for that competition are still under development. [...] [...] John Gedmark of the X Prize Foundation talked about the upcoming X Prize Cup 2006 in October in Las Cruces, NM. The event will feature NASA’s Lunar Lander Challenge for developers of vehicles that can vertically take off, hover, translate, and land. (See yesterday’s post about Armadillo’s plans for the competition.) The exact rules and even prize amounts are in flux, and Gedmark would only say that a final announcement would be made about the competition “soon”. The XP Cup will also be the home of the Reusable Rocket challenge, for launching, recovering, and reusing sounding rockets or VTVL vehicles. Rules for that competition are still under development. [...]

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