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Space colony art: Don Davis


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Briefs: First lunar prize team; SpaceShipTwo in 2009

Odyssey Moon of the Isle of Man is the first team to complete the registration process for the Google Lunar Prize: Private Moon Race: Off and Running - LiveScience.com Blogs. They will formally announce their project at the Space Investment Summit on December 6th.
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This space tourism feature article quotes Will Whitehorn of Virgin Galactic as saying they are "three quarters of the way through the construction of the spaceship system" and it will be unveiled "in the first half of 2009". Test flights would occur during the rest of that year and then passenger service would start in 2010: Space tripping: Out-of-this-world adventures - msnbc.com. I had heard that the White Knight 2 would roll out early next year. I supposed that would still be consistent with Whitehorn's statements if the SS2 doesn't come out until 2009.

Comments

I wonder what the propulsion system will be...?

Posted by Rand Simberg at 12/01/07 11:51:57

Probably a rocket.

Posted by anon at 12/01/07 14:56:23

Hi Rand,
Don't know. Will be interesting to find out. I think he could get some nice engines from a company nearby but he seems set on these hybrid things.
- Clark

Posted by TopSpacer at 12/01/07 18:46:58
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