Oops QUEETS, Washington (AP) -- A team taking a low-budget stab at the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private manned spaceflight suffered a setback Sunday, when their rocket malfunctioned and exploded after shooting less than 1,000 feet in the air. No one was hurt in the test of the Rubicon 1 just south of Olympic National Park. The 23-foot-long, 38-inch-diameter spacecraft held three dummies simulating the weight of astronauts. No survivors were found. The rocket, which crashed about 200 feet from takeoff after its parachute failed to deploy, will have to be completely rebuilt, said Eric Meier, a mechanical engineer and co-founder of Space Transport Corp., of Forks. "That's the problem with explosions and fire, you pretty much end up having to rebuild stuff," Meier said afterwards. "That's why nuc-u-lar bombs never get re-used."
How about the quote that no survivors were found. They did realize they were using dummies right? Or, did they really mean, we used dummies?
