Ansari X Prize

...corner of Rutan's factory, he noticed the spaceship, commissioned by the Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen to compete for the $10m Ansari X Prize for technological development. It was a two-part craft, both parts reusable, and it was top...

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The designers of SpaceShipOne, the first privately manned rocket to burst into space, were handed a $10 million check and the Ansari X Prize trophy. Today's Birthdays: Director Mike Nichols is 78. Country singer Stonewall Jackson is 77.

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...funded by NASA's Centennial Challenges program via the Spaceward Foundation, and with a $2 million prize up for grabs. The idea, much like the X-Prize, is to spur the development of a new technology--three teams are taking part this year, with...

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...Information Center at 1-877-EERE-INF (1-877-337-3463) or on the web at www.eere.energy.gov ABOUT THE X PRIZE FOUNDATION The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for...

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...great aviation feats, including Charles Lindbergh's 1927 nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. The X Prize Foundation has fostered a renaissance in prize competitions over the past decade. Since 2000, companies, foundations, and...

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...vehicles that exceed 100 miles per gallon or the equivalent efficiency. Its organizer, the X Prize Foundation, is best known for the Ansari X Prize, which led to the first manned private spaceflight in 2004 and is also sponsoring contests...

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...U.S., online at http://www.progressive.com, and by phone at 1-800-PROGRESSIVE (1-800-776-4737). ABOUT THE X PRIZE FOUNDATION The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit prize institute whose mission is to create radical...

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...a propulsion engineer on SpaceShipOne, a spacecraft developed by Scaled Composites in Mojave, Calif., which went on to win the Ansari X Prize, awarded to the first private company to build and launch a reusable, manned aircraft into space...

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...of my old age," he said. It has been five years since SpaceShipOne, the first privately financed manned spacecraft, captured the Ansari X Prize on October 4, 2004, by demonstrating that a reusable rocket capable of carrying passengers...

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...plane broke through Earth's atmosphere to the edge of space for the second time in five days, capturing the $10 million Ansari X prize aimed at opening the final frontier to tourists. Pioneering astronaut Gordon Cooper died in Ventura,...

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