{"id":190,"date":"2005-07-20T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/2005\/07\/20\/the-x-prize-190\/"},"modified":"2024-07-21T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T13:55:10","slug":"the-x-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/the-x-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"The X Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found myself reading about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xprize.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X Prize<\/a> (now the Ansari X Prize). This is the competition behind last year&#8217;s private space flight. Reading their history and mission pages is interesting. They&#8217;ve modeled the prize on the aviation prizes of the early 20th Century, which effectively drove the innovation leading to today&#8217;s aerospace industry.<\/p>\n<p>These people are using the same model to drive the development of private space flight, and a number of other innovations. It&#8217;s really just quite cool.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mission of the X PRIZE Foundation is to cause radical breakthroughs in space and other technologies for the benefit of humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Their motto: <b>Evolution through competition.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>And from their Fact Sheet:<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"green\" size=\"-2\"><b>Why space?<\/b><br \/>\nSpace offers adventure<br \/>\nSpace provides freedom- a frontier literally without end.<br \/>\nSpace can save the Earth<\/p>\n<p>A tiny fraction of the abundant solar energy that flows past the Earth could provide all of our planet&#8217;s power needs without greenhouse gasses or nuclear residue-forever. Beyond energy, space offers us unlimited access to the metals and minerals needed for technological expansion and new worlds for our use in developing future societies.<\/p>\n<p>Space flight offers the ultimate personal challenge<\/p>\n<p>Every one of the 500 men and women who have flown in space has said that it was the adventure of a lifetime. They report that viewing the world from higher than the highest mountain is a universally mind-altering experience.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found myself reading about the X Prize (now the Ansari X Prize). This is the competition behind last year&#8217;s private space flight. Reading their history and mission pages is interesting. They&#8217;ve modeled the prize on the aviation prizes of the early 20th Century, which effectively drove the innovation leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3657,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/3657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}