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...
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CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). The Ansari family is also the title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize. On September 18, 2006, a few days after her...
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Xprize Foundation (redirect from X-Prize)
companies, and organizations to develop ideas and technologies. The Ansari X Prize relating to spacecraft development was awarded in 2004, intended to...
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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...
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SpaceShipOne flight 17P (redirect from X2 (X Prize spaceflight))
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...
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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...
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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...
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SpaceShipOne flight 16P (redirect from X1 (X Prize spaceflight))
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Space Transport Corporation (category Ansari X Prize)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Da Vinci Project (category Ansari X Prize)
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...
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Billionaire space race (category SpaceX)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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for its use of non-metal, composite materials, and for winning the Ansari X Prize with its experimental spacecraft SpaceShipOne. Scaled Composites was...
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How to Make a Spaceship (category Ansari X Prize)
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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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First Ansari X Prize flight of SpaceShipOne. October 4, 2004 — X-Prize-winning flight of SpaceShipOne. June 21, 2005 — First captive flight of Boeing X-37...
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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 developed...
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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...
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program activity was spurred by the establishment of the $10 million Ansari X Prize in May 1996. Space programs of the United States date to the start of...
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