Texans bow out of the race, but plan on pressing on

John Carmack and the boys at Armadillo Aerospace are conceding defeat most graciously:

We gave up our last glimmer of hope to have a vehicle ready after the August 8 test flight crash… Realistically, we fell out of the running when we had to give up on 90% peroxide due to the lack of availability…?

We recognized a year ago that the odds weren’t looking good, so we haven’t pushed on the launch license and launch site work, because both of those are likely to get easier in the next year or two, and it wasn’t worth spending the time and money on them without a good shot at the X-Prize payoff.

With a few better decisions early on, maybe another day a week of work, and about a million dollars more thrown at the site and license problem, we probably could have done it this year.? We’ll see if we have a 100km vehicle well tested by this time next year?

Assuming they can pull themselves away from Doom.