According to Wired.com, Doom coder John Carmack is entering his own rocket into a space flight exhibition next week. The event, entitled X Prize Cup, is sponsored by the mysterious X Foundation which is enthusiastically endorsing the development of a commerical space flight industry. Carmack himself will pilot the craft, designed and developed by his company Armadillo Aerospace. Disappointingly, however, it's a remote control rocket. Commenting on his plans for the flight the Id founder said:
"I might swing it around a little bit, moving it from side to side inside a reasonably small box"
If there's an X Foundation prize for rocketry-related double entendre I'm sure the great man has just walked clean away with it.
