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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Film portal Black Sky: The Race For Space, 2005 documentary about the Ansari X Prize Foust, Jeff (July 28, 2008). "Preview: Orphans of Apollo". The Space...

builder and Ansari X-Prize winner Burt Rutan, X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis, Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and private astronaut and X-Prize sponsor Anousheh...

Russia and SpaceX to take American astronauts to and from the International Space Station. In the early 21st century, the Ansari X Prize competition was...