John Carmack’s private space program shutters up

Well, it had been fun to watch as it went:

“Armadillo Aerospace, the private rocket-building enterprise founded by gaming godfather John Carmack, is being put on hold. At QuakeCon, Carmack told New Space Journal that in the face of a failed landing in January and growing organizational problems, ‘things are turned down to sort of a hibernation mode.’ Armadillo, the Journal reports, had hit a snag after giving up private contract work to chase a reusable cargo craft of the kind used by NASA. Th...