X Prize Challenges, Inspires, and Empowers Human Kind
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SpaceShipOne Flight 16P Taxi Pre-Launch photo (attribtution: Don Ramey Logan, presented at: WindermereSun.com) -
Mike Melville and Burt Rutan speak to media after the first flight into Space photo (attribution: Don Ramey Logan, presented at: WindermereSun.com)
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SpaceShipOne Flight 16P Taxi Pre-Launch photo (attribtution: Don Ramey Logan, presented at: WindermereSun.com)
Mike Melville and Burt Rutan speak to media after the first flight into Space photo (attribution: Don Ramey Logan, presented at: WindermereSun.com)
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During my research on the previous post for Moon Express, I’ve come across Ansari X Prize. The Ansari X Prize was a space competition in which the X Prize Foundation offered a US$10,000,000 prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks. It was modeled after early 20th-century aviation prizes, and aimed to spur development of low-cost spaceflight.
Created in May 1996 and initially called just the “X Prize”, it was renamed the “Ansari X Prize” on May 6, 2004 following a multimillion-dollar donation from entrepreneurs Anousheh Ansari and Amir Ansari. The prize was won on October 4, 2004, the 47th anniversary of the Sputnik 1 launch, by the Tier One project designed by Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, using the experimental spaceplane SpaceShipOne. $10 million was awarded to the winner, and more than $100 million was invested in new technologies in pursuit of the prize. Several other X Prizes have since been announced by the X Prize Foundation, promoting further development in space exploration and other technological fields.
For more information or questions/answers about X Prize, please click HERE and HERE.
Gathered, written, and posted by Windermere Sun-Susan Sun Nunamaker
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