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Dr. Demir, Boston MA USA — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:53:38 GMT

My sincere conratulations go to BonNova Corp. their team, designer Allen Newcomb, great source of inspiration Aira Flight book,and its marvelous futuristic writer, thinker, darling of the universe Vanna Bonta!

Good luck with all your efforts.

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Megan Miller, Washington DC — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:17:30 GMT

Will Pomerantz did a fabulous job last year and this coming competition will be equally impressive, it not more so. Keep up the great, innovative work.

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Catchaori de Pollo, Nuuk, Greenland — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:53:28 GMT

HOW COOL!
GO TEAM BonNOVA!!!

"Aira directed her gaze toward the portal and beyond, then the light-being expanded outside of space and particles, still monitoring what her form-senses needed to know as pilot of the Lauryad."
-Vanna Bonta

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Gaetano Marano - Italy — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:47:46 GMT

Lunar landers Challenges contests are very interesting and funny (especially for those who actually work about them, and, much more, for the winners :) ...unfortunately, just very little part (maybe, 5-10%) of the experience and engineering solutions found working around them ("on Earth") can be applied to REAL Lunar Landers, since, with 1/6 of gravity and no atmosphere, a (real) LUNAR Lander needs different, much higher thrust and highly throttleable (down to 10% of the max thrust) engines, different propellents, much larger nozzles for the vacuum, different attitude controls jets, different (and ligher) structures and landing pads, etc. ...and, all these "different things" (of a "Lunar" vs. an "Earth" Lander) need a VERY MUCH different SOFTWARE (that may do the the difference between "LAND" and "CRASH" on the moon) so (near) ALL codes written and (near) ALL telemetric data gathered on Earth's landings tests will have VERY LITTLE (or NOT ANY) useful application on (nor can be transferred to) a (real) LUNAR Lander ..also, all (on Earth) tests and data will be forged by Earth's atmosphere "drag" factor that brakes the Lander on (both) ascent and descent modes, so, the test-vehicles will need MORE thrust (than vacuum) on ascent and less thrust (than vacuum) on descent

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John Damocles Smith , Melbourne, Australia. — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:36:28 GMT

Thanks for naming the craft after the ship in Vanna Bonta's novel. Kudos to you at BonNova.

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Angel Mass, Ukert Crater, Earths Moon — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:07:01 GMT

She deserves it :) Its so coolness! lets never stop to dream, as for youll become what you dream