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SpaceShipOne Blasts into Space

SpaceShipOne (image below) completed the first of two successful flights into space to win the $10 million Ansari X prize.

Quote by Fox News
The Ansari X Prize was modeled after the $25,000 Orteig Prize that Charles Lindbergh won in his Spirit of St. Louis for the first solo New York-to-Paris flight across the Atlantic in 1927.
The St. Louis-based X Prize Foundation, noting the rapid development of air travel after Lindbergh's feat, hopes to inspire an era of space tourism in which spaceflight is not just the domain of government agencies such as NASA.

Basicly the first person to build a ship and fly it into space (100km or 62 miles above Earth) wins a hefty $10 million award (other criteria apply). They did this because it is important to try to get the public sector involved in space travel. In the past 40 years the cost of going into space has not changed. If we ever want to find an easy way to get into space we have to make people think there is money to be made by doing so. Obviously the $10 million is just a tease to try and get something started. As God said at the Tower of Babel anything we put our minds to we will accomplish.

Genesis 11:5-6
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

If people/companies think there is money to be made by getting into space, we will be there in no time. Space travel will then become more and more efficent and frequent.

Posted by GraphicMD at September 29, 2004 01:15 PM | TrackBack