| ROCKETEERS How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots is Boldly Privatizing Space Michael Belfiore New York: HarperCollins, 2007 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-061-14902-3 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-061-14902-0 | 305p. | HC/FCI | $26.95 | |
| Prize Name | Date | Offered for | Sponsored by | Amount | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sources: Michael Belfiore, Rocketeers, pp. 21 & 103; Wikipedia | |||||
| Armengaud Prize | 1908 | Sustained flight of 15 minutes or longer | Jules Armengaud | 10,000 francs | Henry Farman, 1908 |
| Daily Mail Prize | 1909 | Flight across English Channel | London Daily Mail | £1,000 | Louis Blériot, 1909 |
| World Prize? | 1910 | Nonstop flight from New York City to Albany (134 miles) | The New York World | $10,000 | Glenn Curtis, 1910 |
| Northcliffe Prize | 1913 | Nonstop flight across Atlantic | Lord Alfred Northcliffe, publisher of Daily Mail | £10,000 | John Alcock & Arthur Whitten Brown, 1919 |
| Orteig Prize | 1927 | Nonstop solo flight across Atlantic | Raymond Orteig | $25,000 | Charles Lindbergh, 1927 |
| Ansari X Prize | 2004 | Two flights to edge of space within fortnight, in little-refurb'd. ship built w/o gov't. funds | Peter Diamandis & X Prize Foundation (and a list of donors) | $10,000,000 | Brian Binnie and Mike Melvill, in Rutan-designed Spaceship One, July 2004 |
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