X the Marks Prize ; When the Sky Is No Longer the Limit

Dayton Daily News › March 09, 2005

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MIAMISBURG -- A cash prize for the first non-government team to fly a three-seat rocket into space sounded like a crazy idea until last year.

Then SpaceShipOne streaked into space over the Mojave Desert -- once in a test flight, then twice within two weeks to meet contest rules -- clinching the $10 million Ansari X Prize for a venture underwritten by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

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X the Marks Prize ; When the Sky Is No Longer the Limit

The laughing stopped. Virgin Group Founder and Chief Executive Richard Branson unveiled Virgin Galactic, a plan to ...

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