SubscribeElsewhere on JetPack Future: Kepler Mission | Space station | ZERO-G | Space elevator | NASA | SpaceX | Space Shuttle |
Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE to Receive up to $5.5 Million in Funding from U.S. Department of Energy 
xprize.org | by Michael Timmons | Sun, Nov 1
xprize.org is the #1 Blogger for X Prize Foundation
The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In 2004, the Foundation captured world headlines when Burt Rutan, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, built and flew the world's fir...
1 bloggers weighed in on a similar topic
4 Months Ago,
Sebastian Blanco from Autoblog says
(in Auto X Prize wins $5.5 million from DOE for its own prize-giving contest)
While the Automotive X Prize's raison d'être is to give out money to the best high-mileage vehicles and business plans in the $10 million contest, as the saying goes, it takes money to give out money. To that end, the AXP announced today that it has received $5.5 million from the U.S. Department...
Try These Related Topics
Try These Related Topics
More xprize.org
X PRIZE Foundation, WellPoint, to Announce Initial Design for Potential $10 Million X PRIZE to Revolutionize U.S. Health Care
X PRIZE Foundation Announces 2nd X PRIZE Lab at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington
X PRIZE Foundation and NASA Award $2 Million in Prizes to Masten Space Systems and Armadillo Aerospace
X PRIZE Foundation and NASA Cap Amazing Lunar Lander Competition and Award $2 Million in Prizes
The X PRIZE Foundation Announces First Asia-Based Contender for Genome Sequencing Prize
MIT Enterprise Forum of Phoenix Presents an Evening With Peter Diamandis
X PRIZE Foundation, WellPoint and the WellPoint Foundation Hold Advisory Summit to Propose Ideas for Healthcare X PRIZE
Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize Announces Teams Qualified to Compete for $10 Million/Launches National Student Contest
The Day Commercial Spaceflight Took Off: October 4 Marks Fifth Anniversary of $10 Million Ansari X PRIZE
Masten Space Systems Successfully Launches Rocket to Qualify for Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge
Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Announces New Division for Large Automakers to Showcase Fuel Efficiency Efforts
“Moon 2.0” Inspiring the Next Generation of Lunar Explorers
Armadillo Aerospace Makes Record-Breaking Rocket Flights to Qualify for $1 Million NASA PRIZE Presented by X PRIZE Foundation
X PRIZE Foundation and Knome Spotlight DNA Day With Historic Charity Auction of Whole Genome Sequence
2009 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge Competition Attempts Scheduled
German Team Part-Time-Scientists Enters $30 Google Lunar X PRIZE Competition
Study Predicts $1.5 Billion Market for Commercial Lunar Services over Next Decade
Related News
Guest opinion: Knowledge comes to Southwest Florida in solutions conference
World's First Commercial Spaceship Revealed - AOL Autos
White Label Space Release Mission Concept
Virgin Galactic unveils rocket plane thrill ride
Moon race 2.0? Count Russia in
Romanian Group Attempts Moon Mission With Giant Balloon
Top Bloggers
| 1 | xprize.org |
| 2 | io9.com |
| 3 | Power Line |
| 4 | Autoblog |
| 5 | Space Fellowship |
| 6 | WorldChanging: Tool... |
| 7 | Xconomy |
| 8 | Universe Today |
| 9 | X Prize Cars |
| 10 | DeviceMAG |
| 11 | Parabolic Arc |
Related Photos
Podcast: MD195 - The Google Lunar X Prize, interview with Will Pomerantz
In September of 2007, Google announced it will sponsor an X Prize Foundation contest to award $20 million to the first non-governmental organization that lands a robot explorer on the moon by the year 2012, named the Google Lunar X Prize. Second place and bonus prizes of $5 million each wil...
Tue, Aug 26 | from blip.tv
