X Prize Competition Gets New Sponsor, Amended Name

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday May 5, 2004 @01:18PM from the kerching dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The X Prize Foundation today announced that entrepreneurs Anousheh Ansari and Amir Ansari have made a multi-million dollar contribution to the X Prize Foundation. As a result, the X Prize Competition is being renamed to the Ansari X Prize Competition." However, the X Prize rules stay the same: "The ANSARI X PRIZE will award $10 million to the first private organization to build and fly a ship that can carry three passengers 100 km (62 miles) into space, return safely to Earth and repeat the launch with the same ship within two weeks. Both flights must be completed by January 1st, 2005."

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Mods - get the whole joke? by Ieshan · 2004-05-05 13:35 · Score: 5, Informative

This was an obvious joke, but I'm not sure if moderators really get it-

Ads really are going on baseball bases. Spiderman 2 has bought the rights to put some logos on baseball bases in the next few weeks.

Next thing you know, corporate sponsors will be buying insightful or funny slashdot posts.

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Re:Wow by KJACK98 · 2004-05-05 16:11 · Score: 5, Informative

http://www.gmu.edu/alumni/spirit/00fall/ansari.htm l If you look at the donators background, I don't think you could find a better or more honorable person to have sponsored this event... This woman definitely deserves her name to be recorded with X Prize's History...