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University Press • Friday, April 25,1997 • Page 4
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Ultimate weekend getaway goal of competition
The prize: $10 million. The task:
launch a spaceship that can give the
average person a weekend trip in space.
So far, 10 teams have registered to
compete for the prize. The contestants
range from inventors and company pres-
idents to a serviceman and a retiree.
The X Prize Foundation is offering
the $10 million prize in the hope that pri-
vate enterprise will build a new space
travel industry. The successful contes-
tants must be able to build a spacecraft
that can carry three adults 62 miles into
space, make two flights in two weeks and
land intact.
Peter Diamandis, a 35-year-old with a
medical degree from Harvard and an
aerospace engineering degree from MIT
heads the foundation. He said his gener-
ation grew up believing “2001: Space
Odyssey” was more than a movie.
““Many people felt that we clearly
would have low-cost access for paying
tourists in space by this point,” he said.
Diamandis is not alone in his dreams
of vacations in space at “orbital hotels”
with panoramic views of the Earth.
When he announced the prize last year
on the Gateway Arch grounds in St.
Louis, the crowd included Buzz Aldrin,
who walked on the moon with Neil
Armstrong in 1969, and Burt Rutan, who
created the first plane to fly around the
world without refueling. Rutan was the
first to announce his intent to enter the
X Prize competition.
Although the private sector must
build the winning rocket, NASA
Administrator Dan Goldin said the gov-
ernment would provide any technical
information that has been made public
and make available equipment for pur-
poses such as wind tunnel tests.
Paul Tryon, a 65-year-old retiree from
the St. Louis suburb of Hazelwood, was
the ninth contestant to enter. He has
more than 34 years experience in aero-
nautical engineering, having worked for
McDonnell Douglas and Bell Aircraft.
“I definitely think it can be done,”
Tryon said. “I think it has to be done if
we’re ever going to make a serious use of
space.”
Although most contestants won’t talk
in detail about their plans, Tryon said his
initially involved using an F-4 military
aircraft, which was built by McDonnell
Douglas and is no longer used in the
United States. He figured he could over-
haul the control panel so the plane
would go faster and make the altitude.
“My personal opinion is that yoir’ll
never be able to get the American public
into something that looks like the
Apollo,” Tryon said. “I think they’d be
afraid of it, and frankly I think they’d be
justified.”
The Air Force has since rejected
Tryon’s request to use an F-4, leaving
Tryon back at square one.
“I’m not sure if I’ll be able to carry
on,” he said. “I don’t want to develop a
plane from scratch.”
Robert Zubrin, co-founder of Pioneer
Rocketplane in Lakewood, Colo., said
he was putting together a team to raise
capital and build his spacecraft. Tony
McPeak, former Air Force chief of staff
and a four-star general, is among those
he has recruited, Zubrin said.
“The same vehicle we are developing
for the X Prize competition will be able
to launch satellites at half the current
price or be able to fly passengers from
New York to London in less than one
hour,” Zubrin said.
Teammates Gary C. Hudson, presi-
dent, and Bevin McKinney, chief execu-
tive, of HMX Inc., California, have been
designing and building launch vehicles
for more than a decade. The two are
already doing some sheet metal work,
according to Collette Bevis, spokes-
woman for X Prize foundation.
Rutan, president of Scaled
Compositors in Mojave, Calif., has a for-
midable track record in aeronautical
engineering. He created the Voyager
which, in 1986, became the first aircraft
to fly around the world on one tank of
fuel.
“I believe that we have to have
tourism, and I am tired of waiting for
someone else to do it,” Rutan said.
“Compared to the difficulty, danger and
expense of flying in the 1920’s, in relative
numbers, leaving the atmosphere is a
piece of cake.”
The announcement of the prize came
on the 69th anniversary of Charles
Lindbergh’s solo, nonstop flight from
New York to Paris. That flight in his
Spirit of St. Louis single-engine plane
took place May 20-21,1927.
Lindbergh won a $25,000 prize
offered by New York hotel owner
Raymond Orteig in 1919. Eight others
grasped at the prize but failed.
Lindbergh was backed by eight business-
men.
Like Lindbergh, the not-for-profit X
Prize Foundation has received support
from St. Louis business leaders, who
have donated $1 million for the opera-
tions of the foundation. They’re working
on raising $10 million for the prize.
The prize’s sponsor ideally would be a
company, looking to target men ages 20
to 50, but individuals may also have been
approached, Diamandis said.
“This is not science fiction, this is real
faith,” he said. “The fact that we have 10
teams registered so far shows that the
will, the drive and the technology is out
there.”
Diamandis predicted that someone
will win the X Prize in three to five years.
“And one to two years after that, we will
have commercial tickets available for
sale,” he said.
Although some make fun of the X
Prize, Diamandis believes he’ll have the
last laugh. “The best way to predict the
future is to create it,” he said. “And
that’s what we’re trying to do.”
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