Scaled Composites appears to have the X-Prize all but in the bag. They are making this look all too easy. I hope they have continued success, and I look forward to their next flight.

This is getting some mainstream coverage, in addition to many mentions in the blogosphere.

A couple of cool pictures from Scaled's website in the extended entry:
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QuantumBlog provides a nice collection of links today to keep handy if you want to try to spot the international space station or other space objects:

Heavens Above
Science@NASA
NASA's SkyWatch

Enjoy!

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Following up on my post from last night/this morning, here are some videos showing what it's like when the "up" part is not so perfect, and quickly becomes the "down" part.

(Hat tip: Alan Brain).

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The ‘up’ part was perfect. I need to work on the ‘down’ part.

So quoth Ted, in an entertaining summary of the first day of the Battlepark 2004 rocket-fest.

As far as working on the "down" part, he shows us some pictures of the aftermath of the Air Munuviana crash.

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