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...

executive officer of the XPRIZE Foundation, and the Ansari family is the title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize. Born Anousheh Raissyan in Mashhad, Iran, she and...

companies, and organizations to develop ideas and technologies. The Ansari X Prize relating to spacecraft development was awarded in 2004, intended to...

place on October 4, 2004. It was the second competitive flight in the Ansari X Prize competition to demonstrate a non-governmental reusable crewed spacecraft...

contribution to the Ansari X Prize foundation on May 5, 2004, the 43rd anniversary of Alan Shepard's sub-orbital spaceflight. The X Prize was officially renamed...

full-altitude test, but not itself a competitive flight for the Ansari X Prize, the prize for the first non-governmental reusable crewed spacecraft. Problems...

place on September 29, 2004. It was the first competitive flight in the Ansari X PRIZE competition to demonstrate a non-governmental reusable crewed spacecraft...

private spaceflight in 2004. That same year, it won the US$10 million Ansari X Prize and was immediately retired from active service. Its mother ship was...

Forks, Washington, was the only other Ansari X Prize entrant to launch during the entire duration of the prize with the exception of Paul Allen and Burt...

pilot on SpaceShipOne's flight 16P, the first competitive flight in the Ansari X Prize competition. In 1978, Melvill met aerospace designer and Scaled Composites...

from right) and Rutan (fifth from right) were awarded the Ansari X PRIZE by members of the X PRIZE Foundation in November 2004. SpaceShipOne at the National...

one's goal is simply to "reach space", for example in competing for the Ansari X Prize, horizontal motion is not needed. In this case the lowest required delta-v...

public involvement. The goal of the Google Lunar X Prize was similar to that of the Ansari X Prize: to inspire a new generation of private investment...

for its use of non-metal, composite materials, and for winning the Ansari X Prize with its experimental spacecraft SpaceShipOne. Scaled Composites was...

spacecraft. It was formed in 1996 specifically to be a contender for the Ansari X Prize for the first non-governmental reusable crewed spacecraft. The project...

Alawis Ansari mountains, in Syria Ansariye, Lebanon, a town in South Lebanon Dupuk Ansari, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran Ansari X Prize, a former...

began in 2004 when the Ansari X-Prize was held. This led to plans to build the world's first true rocket festival. Three X-Prize Cups have been held: in...

privately funded spacecraft to enter the realm of space, winning the Ansari X-Prize that year for achieving the feat twice within a two-week period. With...

the SpaceShipOne flight 15P. The program won the Ansari X Prize later that year. 30 May 2020 – SpaceX successfully launches a Falcon 9 rocket carrying...

the second Ansari X Prize flight X-2 Dragonfly, the company designation of the Rotor-Craft XR-11 experimental helicopter of the late 1940s X-2 Rocket,...

The most high-profile X PRIZE to date was the Ansari X PRIZE relating to spacecraft development awarded in 2004. This prize was intended to inspire...

about the origins of the X Prize Foundation and Peter Diamandis, the first X Prize, the Ansari X Prize and Anousheh Ansari, the entrants into that suborbital...

Amjad P. Zaidi (3 October 2014). "Blazing a Trail: SpaceShipOne and the Ansari X Prize". Rocket STEM. Knut Samset (2012). Beforehand and Long Thereafter. Ex...

Additionally, the company participated as a competitor in the Ansari X Prize and America's Space Prize competitions. The NEPTUNE rocket, a two-stage vehicle design...

craft during the flights later in 2004 to meet the requirements of the Ansari X Prize. Although Siebold flew SpaceShipOne to an altitude of 32 kilometres...

The Northrop Grumman X-47 is a demonstration unmanned combat aerial vehicle. The X-47 began as part of DARPA's J-UCAS program, and is now part of the...

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...

(rocket-powered spacecraft). 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...

Canadian Arrow was considered one of the top three candidates for the X-Prize competition[citation needed], along with Scaled Composites (Burt Rutan)...

October 4, 2004, he piloted SpaceShipOne's second Ansari X Prize flight, flight 17P, winning the X Prize and becoming the 436th person to go into space....