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Jane Skinner just did an interview with Granger Whitelaw on the Rocket Racing League. Cool video simulations of the rockets played in the background throughout.
The giggle factor continues to dissipate.
Posted by Rand Simberg at March 19, 2007 11:26 AM
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Hey Rand, Is there a link to that video?
Posted by kayawanee at March 19, 2007 11:42 AM
From the RRL web site:
The Rocket Racing League™ is an aerospace sports and entertainment organization that combines the competition of racing with the excitement of rocketry. The RRL was established by X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis and two-time Indianapolis 500 champion team partner Granger Whitelaw to advance the technology and increase public awareness of space travel. The NASCAR-style racing league features rocket-powered aircraft that will be flown by top pilots through a 'three-dimensional track way' at venues throughout the world. With millions of fans who enjoy racing and air shows, and an even wider audience enthralled with humanity's next step into space, rocket racing is destined to become the future of racing!
Yup, NASCAR style rocket racing. Cool!
Speaking of Granger Whitelaw, here is a comment to an aborted blog I started last summer:
smiling............. all of the above and more :)
Posted by: granger whitelaw | August 06, 2006 at 07:57 PM
A comment to my post titled Talladega Nights
Posted by Bill White at March 19, 2007 12:15 PM
Not that I know of. You could try the Rocket Racing League site.
Posted by Rand Simberg at March 19, 2007 12:23 PM
I don't know about giggle factor but the comments always seemed reasonable to me that this effort would be unlikely to produce any technology actually applicable to spaceflight. If they do get it going though, it will be one *cool* sport! Looking to the future, imagine a truly three dimensional raceway laid out within something like a one hundred mile radius centered on one of the Lagrange points, seriously cool. And even if the rocket racers don't contribute materially to astronautical technology, they still may play a role in maintaining awareness. One can even imagine the private launch companies sponsoring the racers, the rocketplanes brightly decorated with advertising logos. How about a sequel to the movie "Cars"?
Posted by Michael at March 19, 2007 08:54 PM
...this effort would be unlikely to produce any technology actually applicable to spaceflight.
You think that routine operable rocket engines don't have any applicability to spaceflight?
Posted by Rand Simberg at March 20, 2007 04:22 AM
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