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The Teams: Unsuccessful Flights
The Teams: Unsuccessful Flights
Space Transport Corporation
Forks, Washington
Vehicle: Rubicon, a 22-foot (~6.7 meter), 7-engine rocket launched from a movable platform
Team Leaders: Phillip Storm and Eric Meier (co-founders)
Web Site: www.space-transport.com
 Photo courtesy Space Transport Corporation Right: Rubicon Launch Engine Assembly breaks apart, and the capsule somersaults into the ocean (August 8, 2004). |
See MSNBC: Space-race rocket blows up.
Armadillo Aerospace
Mesquite, Texas
Vehicle: Black Armadillo, a 24-foot (~7-meter) rocket launched vertically from the ground
Team Leader: John Carmack, creator of the popular first-person shooter video games Wolfenstein 3D (1992), DOOM (1993) and Quake (1996)
Web Site: www.armadilloaerospace.com
See Space.com: Armadillo Aerospace’s X Prize Prototype Crashes.
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