ROCKETEERS

Reviewed 11/18/2009

Rocketeers, by Michael Belfiore

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

ISBN-13 978-0-061-14902-3
ISBN-10 0-061-14902-0 305p. HC/FCI $26.95

Aviation and Spaceflight Prizes Offered

With Sponsors and Winners

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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