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Subj: X-Prize 'will be won this year'
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 137.03 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. May 16, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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The X-Prize, a $10m race to be the first private company to put a craft
into space twice in two weeks, will be won soon, believe its organisers.
X-Prize chairman Peter Diamandis says it will be secured within five
months.
A total of 26 teams are competing, with SpaceShipOne, an entry by
aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan, considered to be the favourite to win the
prize.
Other teams have already started to look at what they might do after the
main challenge has been met.
Mr Diamandis was speaking at the recent 41st Space Congress held at
Cape Canaveral in Florida, US.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3700855.stm
[ANS thanks BBC News for the above information]
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