One Giant Leap

I love space. And Mars, especially, thanks to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, Ray Bradbury, and those wonderful rovers on Mars, Spirit and Opportunity (yeah, I know they're names; did you know after the dust storm cleared Opportunity is going into Victoria Crater?).

Anywho.

The fellows from the Ansari X Prize, which gave money to SpaceShipOne for suborbital flight are going to announce their next big prize on the 13th of September. Here's their teaser trailer.




According to the invitation to the event: "The challenge is extreme, the destination is extraordinary, the prize purse is exceptional."

It's pretty much going to be awesome.

From Wired.