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September 29, 2004

X-Prize Update

White Knight Continues Climb

0745 PDT -- White Knight continues its climb to approximately 50,000 feet, where it will release SpaceShipOne. Dick Rutan, speaking to CNN's Miles O'Brien, said, "Everything is nice and quiet."

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Burt Rutan: On The Edge Of Space

Rutan And Allen To Make First X-Prize Attempt Wednesday

When you ask Burt Rutan why he wants to go into space, you get a short history lesson on the shortcomings of NASA.

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They're From The Government And They're Here To Help

A Look Inside The FAA Office That Regulates Commercial Manned Spaceflight

Since 1984, Patricia Grace Smith's office at the FAA has been licensing commercial rocket launches. The payloads have always been satellites or research equipment -- until Burt Rutan and Paul Allen changed things with the flight of SpaceShipOne back in June. It was Smith's office that gave Scaled Composites and pilot Mike Melvill the final regulatory go-ahead for that record flight and it was Smith who pinned the first ever commercial astronaut wings on Melvill's chest when he returned. Somewhere in that entire process, someone had to do a lot of paperwork.

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It Worked: X-43A Rehearsal Went Off Fine

Next Step: Mach 10 Free Flight

NASA aeronautics researchers are looking forward to flying the X-43A research aircraft at speeds up to 10 times the speed of sound later this fall, following a successful "captive carry" dress rehearsal flight from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center Sept. 27.

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Fly Me To The Moons...

Northrop Grumman And JPL Team Up To Go To Moons Of Jupiter

NASA's JPL has chosen Northrop Grumman Corp. as a partner in developing a preliminary design for the Prometheus Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO), an electric propulsion vehicle powered by a nuclear fission reactor. The contract award is for approximately $400 million, covering work through mid-2008.

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