[Nuke]

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/2004/8/xprize_blowups/

more reasons why burt rutan is gonna win the x prize

[Fineus]

A pity, I rather hope that privitised space flight will jolt people out of fighting eachother and into exploration etc.

[Knight Templar]

Sucks for him I guess.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]You know I couldn't find one picture of the damn spacecraft on the site, just a rather ill concieved vtol lander.

What gives?
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[Kazan]

carmack should stick to his day job

that's what gives

[aldo_14]

Ach, everyone needs a hobby.  If it involves blowing **** up, all the more fun*.

*Does not apply to Osama Bin Ladin or George Bush.  It's nota hobby for them......

[magatsu1]

yeah, they get paid to do that (in a round about kinda way)

[ChronoReverse]

The article said his ship crashed since fuel stopped flowing in to the engine.  The other rocket exploded.

[Vaelinx]

Well... apparetly it is as hard as rocket science

I should know... it's a long process and there's that can go wrong...

[Nuke]

oddly enough carmack wrote the engine control software himself, i guess he forgot to kill some bugs.