print email comment close Ansari X Prize URL: http://www.xprize.org/x-prizes/ansari-x-prize Description: Brief history of this prize "modeled after the Orteig Prize, won by Charles Lindbergh in 1927 for being the first to fly non-stop from New York to Paris, and mirrors the hundreds of aviation incentive prizes offered early in the 20th Century." Provides links to other X prizes such as the Archon X Prize for Genomics and the Automotive X Prize. From the X Prize Foundation. Publisher: X Prize Foundation Extra Keywords rocket Library of Congress Subject Headings: Rockets (Aeronautics) Space flight Space vehicles LII Database Information: Record 4136 created by Maria Brandt on 08/09/2004 Last modification on 09/12/2007 Published: 08/09/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/4136