Competitions

A $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel 500 meters and transmit video, images and data back to Earth.

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Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:18 pm

romniE1

A competition with monetary prizes similar to the Ansari X Prize, but with the purpose of developing a space elevator and space elevator related technologies.

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Fri May 25, 2012 1:42 pm

box

The N-Prize is competition to launch a satellite weighing between 9.99 and 19.99 grams into Earth Orbit. It must be tracked for a minimum of nine orbits, the launch budget must be within £999.99 (about $1500)

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Mon Mar 18, 2013 3:39 pm

DaveHein

A space competition in which the X PRIZE Foundation offered a US$ 10 Million prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks.

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Mon Oct 11, 2010 8:23 am

JamesHughes

A partnership between the X PRIZE Foundation and the State of New Mexico that began in 2004 with plans to build the world's first true rocket festival.

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Fri May 29, 2009 6:58 pm

Ekkehard Augustin

A NASA space competition, awarding prizes for non government funded technological achievements by American teams.

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Sat Dec 01, 2012 11:54 pm

StevenJ

A US$ 50 million orbital spaceflight competition, for 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.

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Sat Feb 27, 2010 11:26 pm

Terraformer

Discuss other competitions here, ranging from the Orteig Prize to new X-Prize competitions influencing space travel.

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Thu Jan 24, 2013 7:33 pm

Rob Goldsmith