This story is part of the Behind the Desk series, where CNBC Make It gets personal with successful business executives to find out everything from how they got to where they are to what makes them get ...
The Internet firm Google is providing $30-million to the X Prize Foundation, a Santa Monica, Calif., charity, for a new effort to encourage private organizations to develop a robotic spacecraft that ...
Two years ago, engineer Burt Rutan won the $10 million Ansari X Prize when his SpaceShipOne flew 62 miles into space. The second X Prize winner won’t travel nearly as far — but will have to traverse ...
In this in-depth study, Luciano Kay focuses on three recent cases of prize competitions in the aerospace industry: the Google Lunar X Prize, the Ansari X Prize and the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander ...
On June 21, 2004, the first privately funded human spaceflight, launched on SpaceShipOne. The ship flew 62.5 miles above Earth's surface -- just a few miles above the boundary of space -- for about 3 ...
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