Bretton Alexander debriefing:
- Carmack told him that it was "officially a bad day".
- Carmack decided not to go for a Level 2 in the evening. They have a spare engine but they are exhausted.
- No insurance, etc for a slot tomorrow.
- No details about what caused the engine failure
- Pieces were thrown from the engine
- Fire quickly died out before the fire truck arrived.
- No further technical info available at the moment. The team debriefing (not open to the press) will happen later.

- Milburn told him that the starts on the first legs were OK on the previous attempts. A "pop" at the start is normal. The return flights both began with hard starts.

- Several teams this year were close to flying, one was very close.
- Expect next year there will be more than one team next year but no guarantee. Carmack had a extra year though so never can tell how many will actually be at the next event.

- There were still successes. Several flights took place. The return flight yesterday flew 83 seconds in controlled flight despite a badly damaged nozzle.
- Lots of innovation from the many teams involved.
- All the person-hours by all the teams would cost far more than the $2M purse if they charged standard salaries.
- Over 80,000 people here this weekend (numbers from AF).
- Two years ago, the Holloman air show got 40,000

- X PRIZE Foundation obligated to run LLC once a year through 2010. Northrop committed for 2 years but they seem happy with how things have gone.

- Wirefly is having financial problems. The pullout was due to their internal problems, unrelated to the XPC.

- Liked the space and aviation combination.

- Will be complicated to organize if 8 or 9 teams show up next year.
- Can't have an elimination round.
- A team is guaranteed at least 2 windows and max 4.

- Van with Carmack and the flight controls was several hundred feet from the vehicle. They got out and walked away when the bang occurred.