SpaceShipOne Captures X Prize
October 4th, 2004 | Published in Stuff
Yesterday the SpaceShipOne team (no government funding) captured the $10 million X Prize (based in St. Louis I might add). To win the contest the SpaceShipOne team had to send the same vehicle to a height of 62-miles twice in two weeks. Today at around 11:00 AM EST the craft fired its rockets and eventually reached a height of 69.7 miles. (112.2 km). By 11:30 the craft was landing in the Mojave desert. How cool is that?

