There’s a good article today over at CNN about Armadillo Aerospace and other X-Prize contestants. And after six years, the prize finally seems to be fully funded.

[Update at 10:26 AM PDT]

I notice that it also talks about a Romanian team going after the X-Prize. Who woulda thunk it a decade or so ago?

It reminds me, though, of the Romanian pavilion at the World’s Fair in Vancouver, that I attended in 1986. In it, they claimed that the airplane was invented in Romania. In 1906.

Most countries that claim to have beaten the Wrights claim to have, you know, done it first. This display didn’t even acknowledge their existence.