This year's Countdown to the X-Prize Cup event in Las Cruces, N.M. featured some flight demonstrations (not all successful) of emerging privately developed space technology, plus a NASA announcement of two prizes for suborbital space development, as reported by MSNBC.
The rocket show was the climax to the Countdown to the X Prize Cup exposition, presented here by the X Prize Foundation. The event follows up on last year's big finish to a $10 million competition for suborbital spaceflight.
On Sunday, one rocket soared, and another blew up. Yet another spaceship lifted off, hovered for a few seconds, then fell over when it landed. Several companies showed off mockups of several future spaceships, and NASA took advantage of the occasion to announce yet more contests for private-enterprise rocketeers.
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