[PSAS] launch failures

[Brian O'Neel]

A couple of unfortunate amateur rocket incidents happened last week. 
Two X-prize contenders ran into problems:


Armadillo Aerospace lost a vehicle:
http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/2004_08_08/48InchCrash.mpg


So did Space Transport
Corp.:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/08/09/bc.privaterocket.ap/index.ht
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It's too bad..but they are doing good work and will keep going
forward.

Brian