THE SPACE TRANSPORT Corp. team was in Southern California Wednesday not only to witness the flight of a rival spacecraft for the $10 million X Prize.
The Forks-based space engineers, Phillip Storm and Eric Meier, visited James Elliott in Pasadena, the actor-moviemaker who for $200 bought the mannequin head that survived the ill-fated Rubicon 1 launch.
Since then, Elliott has created a humorous Web site, “The Stevie Austin Project”‘ at www.nighttrainfilms.net/StevieAustinProject, which lampoons the 1970s TV show, “The Six Million Dollar Man.”
Paralleling Space Transport’s reconstruction of Rubicon 2, Elliott and his surgical team of fellow actors rebuilt astronaut Stevie Austin at the fictitious “Rubicon Intensive Care Unit and Rehabilitation Facility” in Pasadena.
The fun helped raise money for and draw attention to the Space Transport cause.
The fully rebuilt Stevie Austin will be loaded into Rubicon 2 for the October launch on the Makah Reservation, said Meier.
