Foundation Announces Annual X Prize Cup

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To be offering a new award each year

Mojave, CA (UPI) Oct 4, 2004
The head of the U.S. foundation awarding the X Prize for privately funded space flight said Monday it will begin hosting an annual competition.

Peter Diamandis, speaking to the Fox News Channel following the second successful flight of SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded rocket to reach space twice within two weeks, and thereby claiming the $10 million prize - said the foundation will begin offering a new award each year.

I want everyone ... to know space is in your future, Diamandis said, adding he envisions gathering all competing, private space ventures together in New Mexico annually to vie for an award, in the same way that aircraft builders and designers used to compete at air shows in the early days of aviation.

The X Prize Foundation, a non-profit educational organization headquartered in St. Louis, is supported by private donations.

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First Commercial "Spacecraft" Set To Clinch Big Prize

Mojave (SPX) Oct 03, 2004
A private US spacecraft is set to blast off for the second time in five days Monday in the final stage of an attempt to clinch a 10-million-dollar prize aimed at launching a new era of space tourism. "What we finally have here, after 40 years of waiting, is the beginning of the personal space flight revolution," said Peter Diamandis, president of the X Prize foundation.

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