When I posted a short while ago [1], I promised another blog post this afternoon about the National Space Symposium... but I'm pulling a switcheroo, as I had a quick update. The NSS post may slip to tomorrow, as I'm headed to the airport soon.
As most of you have no doubt already seen, Armadillo Aerospace [2] was featured prominently in the Rocket Racing League [3] announcement [4] that happened yesterday. We are excited and proud for Armadillo, a wonderful group of people and a great team that has been doing really fantastic work. Their selection as a partner for RRL was well deserved.
I did want to clarify one issue, though. Many places in the media have picked up a quote from John Carmack, the leader of team Armadillo, indicating that because of this deal with RRL, Armadillo would not compete in or would downgrade their efforts to win the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge [5].
After we talked directly to John, I'm happy to report that that is not the case. Armadillo does indeed still plan on competing in the Lunar Lander Challenge this year. They are excited to have the new business--but the NGLLC definitely still fits into Armadillo's plans, and they are excited and confident about their chances to when it this year. I don't know if John was misquoted or if he misspoke, but either way, the wrong message got out. I'm happy to correct it here.
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