Yeah, I know, it's a mixed metaphor. Carmack and crew worked overnight to repair Pixel by cannibalizing Texel. Unfortunately, they also found a cracked combustion chamber on the engine that came down hard, and have also replaced it with a higher-life version, so John says that there's a slightly higher chance of an engine failure today.

If they succeed with the Level 1, they'll put the missing bits back into Texel and try for Level 2. But even if not, they may fly Texel anyway, just to beat the old DC-X flight duration record of 142 seconds.

And as I type this, there's about to be a dual Tripoli launch. Two minutes to launch.

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And both flights were successful, about a minute apart. There were small sonic booms in both cases.

By the way, any more trollish off-topic comments like those yesterday will be deleted with extreme prejudice. I'll leave the ones from yesterday up, since others have commented on them, and they're a continuing testament to the putrid imbecility and vandalistic mentality of too many leftists.

quoting Chris bucley is off limits?

quoting Chris bucley is off limits?

Good lord, you're an even bigger moron than your fantasies of Bush.

This is not a free public bulletin board for your mindless political rants. If I put up a post about the X-Prize Cup, I expect people to comment about that post. To spill the contents of what passes for your mind into my comments section on a completely unrelated subject is not just stupid--it's extremely rude. It's also exactly what we've come to expect of your kind.