Armadillo rolling along
Armadillo Aerospace has a video on their website of a perfect flight . Their rocket boosted to 131 feet, came back down, and safely landed about a foot away from where it launched.
This is just a small group of people with the financial backing and direct involvement of John Carmack, the creator of Quake and Doom. They might be a little bit behind SpaceShipOne, but might still beat them to the X prize (scaled's flight on Monday is not the first of two required to claim the prize, only a step in that direction). Armadillo is on a roll, and it won't be long before they have their really big engines made and a full scale rocket ready to go.
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