This was a groundbreaking announcement made at the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. Not only will New Mexico be the state hosting Spaceport America, but it will also be carrying Virgin Galactic as well as the newly announced vehicle from Armadillo Aerospace in cooperation with the Rocket Racing League. Check out the coverage, this is a world changing announcement.

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  1. onorbit.com/mercury says:
    October 28, 2008 at 11:08 am

    Spaceport America, Armadillo Aerospace and Rocket Racing League | Spacevidcast…

    This was a groundbreaking announcement made at the 2008 X PRIZE Foundation’s Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. Not only will New Mexico be the state hosting Spaceport America, but it will also be carrying Virgin Galactic as well as the newly a…

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  2. val stavrev says:
    November 3, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    Very interesting announcement from Armadillo
    Their design is arranged around spectacular and controversial feature – a transparent spherical crew capsule (in Armadillo they like sphere). The rendering is lack of detailing and appear to be made quickly to be presented on event. I thing, the most valuable element of this announcement is the TRANSPARENCY — the commercial space travel is an entertainment on first place.

    Hire is a paper disusing feasibility of high transparent cupola in space environment:
    http://www.sae.org/technical/papers/2008-01-2025

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