Hey X-Racer Fans!!

It’s summer and things are cooking at the Rocket Racing League®! In fact, creating a brand-new 21st century sport like rocket racing is like cooking a 50-course dinner and making sure it all comes out on time and in the proper order. Fortunately, we have some extraordinary cooks in the kitchen and everything is going according to plan.

The State of New Mexico and City of Las Cruces are officially on-board with the RRL, providing land and assistance to build our new headquarters and hangar site locations to house our teams. They are also assisting in the creation of a new industrial park next to the airport for future rocket-based industries that will grow up around the home of the Rocket Racing League®.

We’ve taken delivery of our first Velocity aircraft that will be used as a “training plane” for RRL pilots and our big contest to name the first X-Racer has a winner which will be announced at the October 2006 X-PRIZE Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Many thanks to our partner in this contest, AOL, for making it a huge success! If you’d like to see a video simulation of what an RRL event will look like, click on this link: http://reference.aol.com/space/rocket-racing.

There’s been so much interest in the RRL from Hollywood that we collaborated with the acclaimed William Morris Agency to help out! Our first team, Leading Edge Rocket Racing, is working together with Challenger Space Centers, and they’ve hired their first team pilot!

If you’ll be in New York this summer, check out the Rocket Racing League® exhibit on display at the Intrepid Museum. http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/pages/triumphofvision.

Rocket Racing League® was at the EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin last month. Check out the pictures on our website. We also plan to be at the Reno Air Races September 13-17th. You’ll have opportunities there to purchase exciting new Rocket Racing League® merchandise. Meanwhile, you can also purchase commemorative shirts, caps and other items at our new online store!

Read all about these new happenings and more in this issue of X-Racer. As always, we welcome your ideas and suggestions and thanks for your support!

Granger Whitelaw
CEO Rocket Racing League®

Coming in the next issue of
X-Racer:

X PRIZE Cup Events Scheduled
Winner of X-Racer naming contest announced
Announcement of new racing teams
And more exciting developments of the Rocket Racing League®!

In response to hundreds of requests we’ve received from our fans around the world, we have launched the new Rocket Racing League® store on the website! Now our new fans who are clamoring to get a commemorative piece of the Rocket Racing League® can do just that!
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Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is a successful visionary. In recent days, he has collected a quartet of important awards, including the inaugural Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space, the Lindbergh Award, the WIRED Rave Award for Science and the Orbit Award from the Space Tourism Society.
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Even though Rocket Racing League® events will take place in the sky, land is still an essential part of the equation; land for hangars to house the planes and teams, land for the high-tech new headquarters where the many people will work to make the RRL™ a reality, land for the high-tech industries and businesses that will grow up around the RRL.
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An important milestone in the evolution of the Rocket Racing League® from idea to reality was reached in Lakeland, Florida at one of the largest aviation events in the U.S., the annual Sun 'n Fun Fly-in. It was there that the Rocket Racing League® (RRL) took delivery of its company-owned Mark-1 X-Racer™ trainer.
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“Drawing from the model of the Indy Racing League, Formula One, and NASCAR, the Rocket Racing League®’s unique rocket powered Grand Prix-style racing is ideally suited for family entertainment,” said Mark Itkin, Executive Vice President and Worldwide Co-Head of Television for the William Morris Agency.
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As might be expected from men as accomplished and motivated as Leading Edge Rocket Racing™ founders Don A. "Dagger" Grantham, Jr. and Robert "Bobaloo" Rickard, the duo (both F-16 pilots as well as successful business entrepreneurs) are pursuing implementation of their team-building strategy on multiple fronts.
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F-16 pilot, Korey “Axe” Amundson has been appointed Chief Pilot for Leading Edge Rocket Racing™, LLC and will take the controls of the team's Mark-1 X-Racer™ early next year in Rocket Racing League® competition.
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