Steve

Are you trying to tell everyone that a vehicle has gone into space,
been recovered and the same vehicle gone back within a two week period
"has been done before"????

Sounds like a new ball game to me.

Big John


On Fri, 14 May 2004 21:16:37 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:


"Jim Weir" wrote in message
.. .

The point is the same point that Edmund Hillary and his small
civilian band had when they climbed Everest.


Not the same. Nobody had climbed Everest and returned before Hillary and
Norgay. The X-Prize competition is a race to be the "first" to do something
that's been done before.