Ansari X Prize | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-06

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansari_X_Prize


00:01:36 1 Motivation
00:04:48 2 Contestants
00:06:19 3 Winning team
00:07:27 4 Flight attempts by teams that did not win
00:09:28 5 List of major donors by order of donation
00:10:24 6 Organization
00:11:14 7 Funding
00:11:47 8 Spin-offs
00:14:15 9 See also
00:15:32 10 Further reading



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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.