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Personal Spaceflight Industry - Reflections on the Five Year Anniversary of the Ansari X PRIZE

Peter Diamandis | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Burt-Rutan, Spaceshipone, X Prize Foundation, Peter Diamandis, Ansari X PRIZE, Virgin Galactic, Singularity-University, Lunar Landing, Richard Branson, Artificial Intelligence, Inside DC, Business News
Peter Diamandis

The most important legacy and meaning of the Ansari X PRIZE on its five year anniversary lies in the fact that the event kicked off a new industry.

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Launching Commercial Space Flight: Part Five -- Brian Binnie Makes History

Peter Diamandis | Posted 10.02.2009 | Technology

Read More: Peter Diamandis, Scaled Composites, Spaceshipone, Brian Binnie, Ansari X PRIZE, X Prize Foundation, Technology News
Peter Diamandis

It was almost possible to forget that I was still driving this spaceship and would have the challenge of bringing it back down to earth.

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Launching Commercial Space Flight: Part Four -- Anousheh Ansari and Her $10 Million Purse

Peter Diamandis | Posted 11.25.2009 | Technology

Read More: Peter Diamandis, Spaceshipone, X Prize Foundation, Anousheh Ansari, Richard Branson Commercial Space Travel, Richard Branson, Commercial Space Travel, Rockets, Ansari X PRIZE, Technology News
Peter Diamandis

We had been looking for possibilities to go to space and perhaps find a way for others like us with to be able to do it as well. While some options existed, they lacked credibility.

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Launching Commercial Space Flight: Part Three - Will Whitehorn and Virgin Galactic Want to Bring You to Space

Peter Diamandis | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Will Whitehorn, X Prize Foundation, Spaceshipone, Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard Branson, Anousheh Ansair, Spaceshiptwo, Ansari X PRIZE, Business News
Peter Diamandis

We anticipate that approximately 600 people will go to space in the first year that SpaceShipTwo begins space tours. That's essentially the total number of people who have ever gone to space.

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Launching Commercial Space Flight: Part One - Finding the New Spirit of St. Louis

Peter Diamandis | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Spaceshipone, Peter Diamandis, X Prize Foundation, Charles Lindbergh, Ansari X PRIZE, Business News
Peter Diamandis

Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space. So, I studied medicine -- thinking that was my path to orbit, but alas, NASA didn't agree, so I had to find another plan -- a plan that led to the founding of the first X PRIZE.

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Guest Blogger, Keith Ferrazzi: Rev up Your Company's Innovation Engine with Candor

Peter Diamandis | Posted 08.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Candor, X Prize, X Prize Foundation, Innovation, Incentive2innovate, I2i, Keith Ferrazzi, Business News
Peter Diamandis

Whether or not you're officially a leader in your workplace, you can create a tremendous impact on its culture just by showing others the value of inviting in candor. Here are some specific tips.

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Re-establishing NASA's Leadership

Peter Diamandis | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Exploration, Transition, Apollo, Nasa, Darpa, Space, Obama Transition, Google Lunar XPrize, X Prize Foundation, Business News
Peter Diamandis

So long a source of national pride and inspiration as well as cutting edge research, NASA is now losing its position of world leadership.

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Voting for the $25,000 "What's Your Crazy Green Idea?" Contest has Begun!

Peter Diamandis | Posted 12.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Competition, Environment, X Prize Foundation, Contest, Energy, X Prize, Green, Green Living, Green News
Peter Diamandis

For those of you who don't know, an X PRIZE is a $10 million competition designed to solve one of the grand challenges of our time.

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Neil Young Vies For X-Prize

Treehugger | Michael Graham Richard | Posted 11.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Lincoln, Energy, LincVolt, Automotive X-Prize, Electric Vehicles, X Prize, Mercedes, Alternative Energy, Electric Cars, Environment, X Prize Foundation, Neil Young, Lincoln Continental, Transportation, Green News

Neil Young currently drives a 1982 Mercedes coupe diesel that runs on vegetable oil he buys from a restaurants, but that's just a "band aid", accordi...

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Calling All Crazy Green Ideas

Jack Hidary | Posted 11.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Youtube, X Prize, Prize Contest, Competition, Energy Innovation, Innovation, X Prize Foundation, Green News
Jack Hidary

Now the X Prize Foundation is focusing on energy and they are looking far and wide for ideas. In fact, they have launched a $25,000 prize on YouTube to call for prize concepts.

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Big Incentive for Fuel-Efficient Vehicle

AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: X Prize Foundation, Tesla Motors, Loremo, Progressive Casualty Insurance, Aptera Motors, Business News

NEW YORK — The X Prize Foundation, best known for its competitions promoting space flights, is offering $10 million to the teams that can produc...

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