Bets on when Scaled's attempt will be?

04/14/04 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

In this article I suggest that Burt will make his Xprize attempt in two months. That's one more flight at a 60 second burn time (in two weeks I think), a flight to just below 62 miles to get Scaled an altitude record (I think this will be what they do on May 5th), and then the full up flight 30 days latter.

Brent suggests that it would be sooner since May 5th is the 43rd anniverery of the first suborbital trip. Brent's date would require that Scaled already have notified Xprize of their intent to fly. The rules don't anything about that notification being public so that could indeed be the case.

The other idea is that Space Access '04 is next week and normally some interesting announcements happen then. So maybe we'll get the 30 day notification then?

What do you think?