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Paul Allen Confirmed as SpaceShipOne's Sponsor

Posted by michael on from the sugar-daddy dept.

Shafe writes "Space.com confirmed suspicions that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was the secret investor in Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne, which completed a successful supersonic flight on the same day as the centennial of flight. Allen hopes Rutan's ship will win the $10 million X-Prize to help kickstart private manned space flight."

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  1. Don't forget Carmack by PIPBoy3000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm personally rooting for Armadillo Aerospace, which has John Carmack's involvement. He's got some great comments on his news page - feels much more open and less corporate than some of the other X-Prize contenders.

  2. Re:Good for Paul! by Ralph+Wiggam · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's funny that most geeks really admire Paul Allen and Steve Wozniak but hate Gates and Jobs.

    My favorite mega-rich guy is Marc Cuban (The Dallas Mavericks owner who wisely sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for cold cash when everyone else at the time was selling for stock). He acts like I imagine I would if I had a billion dollars.

    -B