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SpaceShipOne wins $10 million prize

A privately funded rockethas won a $ 10 million US dollar prize for the first commercially viable manned spacecraft, report agencies. SpaceShipOne, commanded by test pilot Brian Binnie touched down......

Design space ship & win $10mn

Revolutionary new experiments spurred by prize money have triggered hopes that space tourism would become a reality in the near future.Twenty-seven teams from seven countries are in the fray to......

Microsoft co-founder, Jimi Hendrix fan, sports team owner... The incredible life and times of Paul Allen

Whenever you think of Microsoft, the only name that crosses one's mind is Bill Gates. But the tech behemoth was co-founded in 1975 by Gates and Paul Allen. Photograph: Anthony P......

A low-cost space trip? Hop into this stunning plane!

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Paul G Allen and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan plan to develop the next generation of space travel. Stratolaunch Systems, founded by Paul G. Allen, is a private......

Private firms gear up for Moon flights

If a NASA-based competition is anything to go by, then private firms seem all eager to conceptualize flights to the Moon. According to a report in Discovery News, the first $1 million prize for......

Win $25 million! Design an efficient car

Prizes have long been used to stimulate innovation. In 1919 the Orteig Prize offered $25,000 to the first pilot to fly the Atlantic nonstop. Charles Lindbergh won it in 1927, fostering the aviation......

SpaceShipOne is Time's 'Invention of the Year'

SpaceShipOne, the world first privately developed spacecraft that first entered the space in October, has been named '2004 Invention of the Year' by Time magazine as a part of its annual 'Coolest......

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