Brian Feeney (engineer) | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-07-10

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Vinci_Project


00:01:01 1 Spacecraft design
00:01:31 2 History and status
00:03:13 3 Hardware
00:04:39 4 Structure



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SUMMARY
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The Da Vinci Project was a privately funded, volunteer-staffed attempt to launch a reusable manned suborbital spacecraft.  It was formed in 1996 specifically to be a contender for the Ansari X Prize for the first non-governmental reusable manned spacecraft.  The project was based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and led by Brian Feeney.The original da Vinci Project is no longer operating.  A documentary was filmed throughout much of the project's life from 2000 through post-X Prize roundup footage in 2008. The documentary accumulated some 1000 hours or so of footage. It was a private undertaking by Michel Jones of Riverstone Productions, Toronto, and as of early 2009 was still in a preliminary stage of editing and completion.The project last  participated in the X Prize Cup 2005, displaying a mock-up of its Wild Fire MK Vl spacecraft.