Stevie Austin: We can rebuild her!

Since I haven't posted anything new on the Anansi X-Prize competition in a while, I figured we needed an update. And boy, what an update! The fellow who won the head of the mannequin "injured" in the crash of the Rubicon 1 rocket some weeks back on an eBay auction has dedicated a website to chronicle the mannequin's reconstruction. We have the technology:

Astronaut "Stevie Austin", the brave Test Pilot for Space Transport Corporation (STC), lies severely injured after washing up on the beach minutes after her experimental Suborbital Tourism Vehicle, called RUBICON 1, exploded and
disintegrated while hundreds of feet in the air over the Pacific Ocean.

The brutal explosion happened so fast, Stevie's Space Capsule Parachute System
failed to deploy, causing her doomed Capsule to plummet toward the sea
while spinning wildly out of control.

There's even a movie featured on the site. Great stuff.

Speaking of great stuff, the official X-Prize website has a page with capsule information and links to all the rocket jockey teams formally competing for the prize. There's even one loony group that was disqualified and kicked out of the competition for making repeated outlandish claims. A fun way to waste an hour or four...

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