Brian Binnie, who in 2004 became only the second person in history to pilot a private craft into space, has died at the age of 69. As a test pilot, Binnie took off on SpaceShipOne to win the XPrize.
With aviation facing a growing sustainability challenge, the Lindberg Foundation and XPrize Foundation have come together to launch the Forever Flight Alliance. Their goal is to accelerate the decarbonization of aviation through incentive prizes.
For instance, on September 18, 2006, Ansari made history as the first woman and the first Iranian to pay her own way to travel to the International Space Station.
A self-made multimillionaire tech entrepreneur, Ansari paid more than $20 million for a seat on Russia s Soyuz spacecraft (via tourism company Space Adventures Ltd.) for the 10-day mission. The only distinction you can make when you re out there is that world is so interconnected, Ansari, 54, tells CNBC Make It. It s not made up of countries or religions, it s made up of oceans, mountains, forests, deserts and clouds.
Ansari dreamed of becoming an astronaut growing up in Tehran, Iran during the 1970s. She would watch reruns of Star Trek, read science fiction books and attempt to build her own spacecraft.
The La Jolla Institute for Immunology is a winner in XPrize’s $6 million rapid COVID-19 testing competition.
The well-known technology contest organizer named five winning teams in the competition on March 16. The others are ChromaCode and Reliable-LFC, both of Carlsbad, Alveo Technologies of Alameda and Mirimus of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Each winner is guaranteed $500,000. They will receive an additional $500,000 over the next few months if they hit milestones for mass-producing their COVID-19 tests.
Moreover, a $50 million venture capital fund called the COVID Apollo Project has pledged to work with the XPrize Foundation and others to bring testing innovations to market. The fund includes life sciences investors such as RA Capital and Bain Capital.
Southern California conference held in immunity bubble turns into superspreader event
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Dr. Peter Diamandis, founder and executive chairman of XPRIZE Foundation, poses for a picture on the red carpet for the 6th annual 2018 Breakthrough Prizes at Moffett Federal Airfield, Hangar One in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017. (Nh
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CULVER CITY, Calif. - XPrize founder Peter Diamandis thought he could hold a conference in an immunity bubble in the middle of California’s COVID-19 surge last month but instead created a superspreader event that infected attendees, staff and himself. I was wrong, Diamandis wrote in a Feb. 12 blog post that detailed the implications of a false sense of security created by negative test results that may lower vigilance and his conclusion that face masks and distancing really are effective.