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Apparently, there is no doubt about the winner of the Rocket Racing League's first race, since the competition that took place on Tuesday saw only one rocket plane in the sky, namely that of the XCOR Aerospace of Mojave. The Armadillo rocket plane did not receive the flight approval from the Federal Aviation Adm... |
30 July 2008
09:48 GMT |
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Two of the most promising concepts in the quest to establish a future commercial space flight service, the Armadillo and the XCOR rocket planes, designed and built by the Armadillo Aerospace of Mesquite, Texas and by the XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, California, are scheduled to flight a head-to-head race next week, as p... |
23 July 2008
09:51 GMT |
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The Rocket Racing League company was created by Granger Whitelaw and X-Prize Foundation chairman Peter Diamandis in 2005. Participants in the challenge that will be held for the first time on August 1st, 2008, will need to pilot rocket-powered airplanes and compete with each other for the 350,000 US dollars prize mon... |
14 April 2008
10:50 GMT |
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1.The name of "armadillo" comes from the Spanish "armado" (armored), the name being given after the Spanish conquistadors. 2.Today there are 20 species of armadillos. They evolved in South America and only one species entered North America, the nine-banded armadillo. Living species vary in body length from 12.5 cm (5... |
3 January 2008
08:10 GMT |
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You could not put this one into an armadillo race. In fact, you could not hold it. That's because ancient armadillos were really big. Now, an American team has described in the "Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology" a new large fossil species based on a partial skeleton discovered up in the Andes in northern Chile... |
13 December 2007
05:23 GMT |
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