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Challenge Awards: Longitude Prize, Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, Centennial Challenges, Google Lunar X Prize, Ansari X Prize
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Editorial Reviews: Product Description Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Longitude Prize, Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, Centennial Challenges, Google Lunar X Prize, Ansari X Prize, Lunar Lander Challenge, X Prize Cup, X Prize Foundation, Team Frednet, Harsen Prize, Archon X Prize, Orteig Prize, Uav Outback Challenge, Darpa Network Challenge, Elevator:2010, Knuth Reward Check, Odyssey Moon, America's Space Prize, Longitude Act 1714, Competitions and Prizes in Biotechnology, Inducement Prize Contest, L Prize, Prize Philanthropy, Wtn X Prize. Excerpt: America's Space Prize was a US $50 million space competition in orbital spaceflight established and funded in 2004 by hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow . The prize would have been awarded to the first US-based privately-funded team to design and build a reusable manned capsule capable of flying 5 astronauts to a Bigelow Aerospace inflatable space module. The prize expired January 10, 2010, without a winner or any test flights attempted. There must be two flights within 60 days. The teams were required to have been based in the United States .Prize rules Contestants Since the launch of the prize, 40 companies had expressed interest, but either didn't have the money which would apparently be needed, or, in the case of SpaceX, were ineligible due to having accepted government funding. Despite the lack of interest, Bigelow did not revise the prize rules, planning instead to seek transportation to space other ways. A few contestants have been:See also (online edition) References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at chapter{...