*The following is archival content from 2003, hosted on the original X PRIZE website, to maintain authenticity.

Propulsion: Blastwave-Pulsejets Ship Name: The Space Tourist Location: Portland, Oregan, USA Launch: Horizontal on conventional runway Landing: Horizontal, powered on conventional runway

Quote from the Team

"The X PRIZE has got to be the capital idea of the century! Space tourism, and space itself, is the future of humanity. We can prove it and we can show you how."

Flight Sequence

Fixed, 7850-ft2-area, laminar-flow wing take-off at about 60 mph within about 150 ft, featuring climb with gradual air-breathing acceleration (according to a fixed program) at fixed angles, to exit the atmosphere at Mach 10 on an unpowered ballistic arc to reach 75-mi. altitude: return on down-leg of same unpowered arc to gradual power-on flare-out re-entry of the atmosphere in simple reverse sequence of the take-off velocity profile. Range above 100,000 ft is about 480 mi. which is covered in about 5 minutes.