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	Orteig Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Orteig Prize was a $25,000 reward offered in 1919 by hotel owner Raymond Orteig to the first allied aviator(s) to fly non-stop from New York City to Paris or vice-versa.
		Lindbergh was both the first solo pilot and the first American to cross the Atlantic nonstop in an airplane (rather than an airship), and he promptly became a national hero.
		The Orteig Prize inspired the $10 million Ansari X Prize for repeated suborbital commercial flights.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orteig_Prize (187 words)

	Raymond Orteig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Raymond Orteig was the New York City hotel owner who offered the Orteig Prize for the first non-stop flight between New York and Paris.
		Orteig was from France but moved to New York in 1912.
		The prize was won in 1927 by Charles Lindbergh.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/r/ra/raymond_orteig.html (84 words)

	Independence Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Orteig was a wealthy New York hotel owner and visionary who realized that transatlantic air travel would be great for business, including his.
		But Orteig's form of motivation is alive and well today as we work to fly to the stars, and like the Orteig Prize, it is privately funded.
		The X PRIZE is a $10 million prize to jump-start the space-tourism industry through competition between entrepreneurs and rocket experts around the world.
	i2i.org /article.aspx?ID=950 (722 words)

	X PRIZE Foundation \| X PRIZE Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Whereas the Nobel Prize and so many of its lesser-known kin have honored people and organizations retroactively, the X Prize Foundation aims to create a series of challenges that identify problems, refuse to prejudge solutions, and attract the mavericks who traditionally are behind so many innovations.
		Last year, shortly before the X Prize was officially awarded, Nevada aerospace executive Robert Bigelow announced a $50 million prize for an occupied vehicle that orbits the earth twice at an altitude of 400 kilometers, and then repeats the trip within two months, all by 2010.
		One of the compelling aspects of the X Prize is that the Goliaths- i.e., the large government contractors that build everything from fighter jets to the Space Shuttle—- chose to sit out the competition, ceding the field to a group of ingenious Davids.
	www.xprizefoundation.com /news/News_XMAN.asp (2950 words)

	America's Space Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		America's Space Prize is a US$50 million orbital spaceflight competition established and funded by hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow.
		The prize will be awarded to the first privately-funded team to design and build a reusable manned capsule capable of flying 5 astronauts to a Bigelow Aerospace inflatable space module.
		The spacecraft must complete its two (2) missions safely and successfully, with all five (5) crew members aboard for the second qualifying flight, before the competition’s deadline of Jan. 10, 2010.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/America's_Space_Prize (345 words)

	X PRIZE Foundation \| Fact Sheet
		The X PRIZE® Foundation is a not-for-profit education organization using competitions to create innovative breakthroughs in space and related technologies for the benefit of mankind.
		Following in the footsteps of over 100 aviation prizes offered between 1905 and 1935 that created today’s multibillion dollar aerospace industry, the ANSARI X PRIZE was awarded to the team that designed the first private spaceship that successfully launched its vehicle to a sub-orbital altitude of 100 km on two consecutive flights within two weeks.
		The ANSARI X PRIZE is headquartered in St. Louis because the prize is patterned after the Orteig Prize which funded Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis and the1927 flight that changed the course of aviation history.
	www.xprizefoundation.com /about_us/fact_sheet.asp (670 words)

	X Prize History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		One of the most significant prizes in the history of aviation (and the one from which the X PRIZE is modeled) was the Orteig Prize, an award for the first nonstop flight between New York and Paris, which was sponsored by Raymond Orteig, a wealthy hotel owner.
		The X PRIZE is a competition that was created to inspire rocket scientists to build a new generation of spaceships designed to carry the average person into space on a suborbital flight to an altitude of 100 kilometers (62 miles).
		To win the prize, vehicles must be privately financed and constructed, and competitors must demonstrate their ability to fly to an altitude of 100 kilometers with three passengers.
	www.bookrags.com /history/astronomy/x-prize-spsc-01 (705 words)

	FuturePundit: X Prize Shows Prizes Can Speed Technological Advances
		The prize, which required two flights in two weeks, will be paid by a special "hole-in-one" insurance policy, a common method of financing prize contests in which an insurance company essentially bets against success.
		What prizes for cutting edge technological achievements do is they give America's and the world's many multimillionaires and billionaires entertaining and ego gratifying ways to use their their cash to push the envelope on what is technologically possible.
		Update: The X Prize's multiplier effect on money spent is going to be much lower than was the case with the Orteig prize.
	www.futurepundit.com /archives/002384.html (2435 words)

	Space Transport : X-Prize - The background, rules, the paricipants
		The X-Prize is a prize sum of $10 million to be awarded by the X-Prize Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to make cheap,frequent yet safe human space flight a reality.
		It is same in concept as the aviation prizes in the early 20th century, like the Orteig prize won by Charles Lindenburg.
		It aims to accomplish this by giving away the prize to the builder of a reusable space vehicle that meets the criteria set by the organisation.
	www.geocities.com /spacetransport/xprize.html (815 words)

	SpaceShipOne
		Although the amount of money rewarded to the winners of the X Prize is dramatically greater that what Lindbergh pocketed in 1927, one thing they do have in common is that they both spent their eventually winnings many times over in their quest for immortality....
		In essence the X Prize was a huge amount of money offered to the first privately funded spacecraft to take three people into space twice in a two week period, with a deadline of January 1st 2005.
		The Orteig prize, and some fifty others like it before and around the 1920's, is what has led to the $250 Billion aviation industry we are all familiar with today.
	homepage.mac.com /lenzcap/iblog/C1490325626/E230110735 (636 words)

	Cash prizes could kick off golden age of space travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The sponsoring X Prize Foundation modeled its competition after the $25,000 Orteig Prize, won by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo flight from New York to Paris.
		Prizes such as that one opened the way for aviation to move from the Wright brothers' early design to the birth of airlines, Rutan told celebrants at the X Prize awards banquet in St. Louis.
		The prize competition had the desired effect of creating not only a winning concept, but also encouraging a variety of approaches to the issue of manned, suborbital space travel.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1312192/posts (901 words)

	X PRIZE Cup
		The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational non-profit prize institute creating radical breakthroughs in space and technology for the benefit of humanity.
		The ANSARI X PRIZE Competition was modeled after the Orteig Prize, won by Charles Lindbergh in 1927 for being the first to fly non-stop from New York to Paris.
		The Orteig Prize was one of hundreds of aviation incentive prizes offered early in the 20th Century – competitions that helped create today's $300 billion commercial aviation industry.
	www.xpcup.com /index.cfm?goto=about_us.aboutxpf (399 words)

	TCS: Tech Central Station - Private Space: Blazing a Trail? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In fact, 27 competitors, from a number of different countries, are competing for the prize, and according to the X-Prize website, a dozen are currently building full-sized competition vehicles.
		The ten million dollar prize has generated a lot more than ten million dollars worth of investment.
		At the moment the program is new and relatively small, but I hope that we'll see other government agencies -- and private philanthropists -- consider the prize approach.
	www.techcentralstation.com /041404C.html (740 words)

	New Contestants Expected In Race For First Private Spaceship
		Diamandis said that the foundation had raised slightly more than half of the prize money needed, and that the full amount should be in hand prior to the first attempt to win the prize, which he predicted was likely by 2004.
		The X Prize project was launched in May 1996 in St. Louis with the objective of stimulating a new generation of launch vehicles designed to send passengers into space.
		That prize was won by American Charles Lindbergh in May, 1927 when Lindbergh alone piloted an aircraft named "The Spirit of St. Louis" from New York to Le Bourget Field near Paris, France.
	www.space.com /peopleinterviews/xprize_803.html (465 words)

	Feynman Grand Prize Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Funds for the $250,000 Feynman Grand Prize have been donated to Foresight Institute by individuals interested in advancing the progress of nanotechnology, and are being conservatively invested.
		It specified a prize of £20,000 (equivalent to about $2.5 million in today's funds) for the person who devised a reliable means for a ship captain to establish his longitude within half a degree of great circle (30 nautical miles at the equator).
		The Orteig Prize was one of many offered to stimulate the development of the fledgling aeronautical industry.
	www.foresight.org /GrandPrize.1.html (2048 words)

	Prepared Statement by Molly Macauley at a House Science Committee Hearing on NASA Aerospace Prizes \| SpaceRef - Your ...
		Prizes were also offered by the French Aero Club, which undertook private fundraising to obtain the prize money; the French Champagne industry; the Harvard Aeronautical Society; the Daniel Guggenheim Fund; the Daily Mail of London; and the New York World.
		The heyday of prizes was about 1900 to 1917 - two decades in which aviation feats made the news for an attentive public interested in the new technology, thrilled by its daredevils, and newly enamored of all modes of transportation as the era of the auto began.
		Prizes may go un-awarded for the duration of the competition, and only then, after this delay, might it be concluded that the technology is not yet feasible (although other reasons may explain the lack of a winner).
	www.spaceref.com /news/viewsr.html?pid=13398 (4793 words)

	The Longevity Meme -- pointing the way to a longer, healthier life
		Research prizes in other fields are currently proving very beneficial, so perhaps it is time for a prize for aging and healthy life extension research.
		Efforts to win the prize need not take more than a few years, since the work is on the life span of laboratory mice; this is always an important consideration.
		This Prize is a fulcrum, a lever, and an important point in the future of anti-aging research.
	www.longevitymeme.org /topics/research_prizes.cfm (1280 words)

	Station Information - Orteig Prize
		The Orteig Prize was 25,000 U.S. dollars offered in 1919 by hotel owner Raymond Orteig to the first person to fly non-stop from New York City to Paris.
		Several unsuccessful attempts at this feat were attempted before the prize was won in 1927 by Charles Lindbergh in his airplane Spirit of St. Louis.
		This was followed by the so called "Lindbergh boom", as public interest in air travel bloomed and aviation stocks skyrocketed.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/o/or/orteig_prize.html (81 words)

	ANSARI X PRIZE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The ANSARI X PRIZE is a $10,000,000 prize to jumpstart the space tourism industry through competition among the most talented entrepreneurs and rocket experts in the world.
		The ANSARI X PRIZE is fully funded through January 1, 2005, through private donations and backed by an insurance policy to guarantee that the $10 million is in place on the day that the prize is won.
		The ANSARI X PRIZE was inspired by the early aviation prizes of the 20th Century, primarily the spectacular trans-Atlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh in The Spirit of St. Louis which captured the US $25,000 (US$) Orteig prize in 1927.
	www.xprize.org /about/what_is_the_xprize.php (356 words)

	ANSARI X PRIZE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The X PRIZE® Foundation is a $10 million prize to jump-start the space tourism industry through competition among the most talented entrepreneurs and rocket experts in the world.
		The ANSARI X PRIZE is headquartered in St. Louis because of the connection with Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis whose historic 1927 flight changed the course of aviation history.
		The ANSARI X PRIZE has been endorsed by leading space and aviation organizations including: The Association of Space Explorers, the US Space Foundation, the National Space Society, Federation Aeronautique Internationale, the Aéro-Club de France, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, the Experimental Aircraft Association, and the Explorers Club.
	www.xprize.org /about/fact_sheet.php (342 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Science -- Private rocketship reaches space in quest for $10 million X Prize
		The X Prize will go to the first craft that safely completes two flights to an altitude of 328,000 feet, or 62 miles, in a 14-day span.
		The Ansari X Prize was modeled after the $25,000 Orteig Prize that Charles Lindbergh won in his Spirit of St. Louis for the first solo New York-to-Paris flight across the Atlantic in 1927.
		The St. Louis-based X Prize Foundation, noting the rapid development of air travel after Lindbergh's feat, hopes to inspire an era of space tourism in which spaceflight is not just the domain of government agencies such as NASA.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/science/20040929-0836-ca-privatespaceship.html (700 words)

	SPACE.com -- X Prize Lands in New York; Rocket at Rockefeller Center
		Those contests, like the $25,000 Orteig Prize set for the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean eventually won by grand pere Lindbergh, pushed air travel from being viewed as a reckless endeavor sought by a relative few to the common mode of transportation used today, said competition organizers.
		The X Prize competition offers a $10 million grand prize for the first successful launch of a three-person crew to a height of 62.5 miles (100 km) that returns safely in a craft that can be re-launched two weeks later.
		Lindbergh is a trustee and vice-president of the X Prize Foundation, which is holding the X Prize competition, and director of the Lindbergh Foundation.
	space.com /news/x_prize_020425.html (785 words)

	Celebrating Anniversary of Historic Space Flight, Ansari Family's Donation Gives Huge Boost to Future Space Travel and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The ANSARI X PRIZE is modeled after the $25,000 Orteig Prize won by Charles Lindbergh in 1927 for his historic flight from New York to Paris.
		The ANSARI X PRIZE will award $10 million to the first private organization to build and fly a ship that can carry three passengers 100 km (62 miles) into space, return safely to Earth and repeat the launch with the same ship within two weeks.
		The X PRIZE Foundation is a not-for-profit educational organization with headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri.
	www.californiaspaceauthority.org /html/press-releasesandletters/pr040505.html (824 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / off_to_the_space_races
		Established in 1919 by New York hotelier Raymond Orteig, and merely one of dozens of similar prizes established in the early years of aviation, the Orteig Prize stimulated nine different attempts to cross the Atlantic – and jumpstarted the age of passenger-carrying civil aviation.
		To take home the X Prize, a team must design and launch a spacecraft capable of carrying three people (or at least a pilot and enough ballast to simulate two passengers) into suborbital space and return it safely to earth – and then, using the same spacecraft, do it again within two weeks.
		Indeed, as Logsdon explains, prizes “allow those who would not otherwise be able to compete with established ﬁrms for government contracts the opportunity to prove the merit of their ideas.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/06/20/off_to_the_pace_races?mode=PF (1025 words)

	Space Race II Mind over matter
		At stake is a $10 million cash prize earmarked for the first team to send a three-passenger craft to sub-orbital altitude -- 100 kilometers or 62 miles -- twice within two weeks.
		Orteig eventually came to own two hotels in New York that were frequented by French pilots on assignment in the United States during World War I. He set up the competition to highlight U.S.-French relations, by offering the money to the first team that flew non-stop between New York and Paris, or vice-versa.
		Orteig's prize was far from the first challenge that pioneering aviators faced, but it did become the most well-known.
	www.spacedaily.com /upi/2004/0914-092027-us-spacerace2-mindshift.html (1188 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Day dawns for X Prize space shot
		The prize will go to the first non-governmental vehicle that can ferry three people to a height of 100 kilometres twice within two weeks.
		He was inspired by the $25,000 Orteig Prize set up in 1919 that led to Charles Lindbergh's famed trans-Atlantic flight of 1927.
		That flight did not qualify for the X Prize, however, because it did not include two additional people, or their weight equivalent, as winning flights must.
	www.newscientist.com /news/news.jsp?id=ns99996459 (532 words)

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