X Prize announcement planned next week

07/20/04 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

Found via Transterrestrial Musings & Space Today: bq. The X Prize Foundation, which administers the $10-million Ansari X Prize, is planning a press conference next week where one or more competing teams may announce plans to conduct flights to win the prize. The press conference is scheduled for Tuesday morning, July 27, in Santa Monica, California, according to a media advisory issued Wednesday.

So far it looks like the announcements will be from the Scaled Composites and da Vinci teams.