While celebrating its 25th anniversary, Xprize, the global leading platform for innovation and impact through incentive competitions, announced five winning concepts during Visioneering 2019, the foundation’s annual gathering to design and evaluate future competitions.
Anousheh Ansari, Jules Ho, Jamee Natella, Pharrell Williams, Peter Diamandis
Credit/Copyright: Xprize
During Visioneering, over 50 Xprize designs were proposed, with five Xprize concepts winning in the categories of food and agriculture, human health and longevity, waste and circular economy, and housing and infrastructure. In the finals, the crowd voted the Charter Communities concept in the housing and infrastructure category as the top winner. The Charter Communities Xprize team was led by visionary artist, producer, songwriter, philanthropist and entrepreneur Pharrell Williams and supported by the Andrew Nikou Foundation and philanthropists like John-Paul Dejoria. The Xprize concept proposed a competition to create transformational public housing alternatives that will provide a self-sustaining life beyond subsidized housing. This latest...
Anousheh Ansari, Jules Ho, Jamee Natella, Pharrell Williams, Peter Diamandis
Credit/Copyright: Xprize
During Visioneering, over 50 Xprize designs were proposed, with five Xprize concepts winning in the categories of food and agriculture, human health and longevity, waste and circular economy, and housing and infrastructure. In the finals, the crowd voted the Charter Communities concept in the housing and infrastructure category as the top winner. The Charter Communities Xprize team was led by visionary artist, producer, songwriter, philanthropist and entrepreneur Pharrell Williams and supported by the Andrew Nikou Foundation and philanthropists like John-Paul Dejoria. The Xprize concept proposed a competition to create transformational public housing alternatives that will provide a self-sustaining life beyond subsidized housing. This latest...
- 10/14/2019
- Look to the Stars
While the “Fi” in “SciFi Mafia” stands for “fiction,” there are times when we cover non-fiction because the subject matter just screams out for our notice. This is one of those times. NBC today announced that it is developing a new competition show – wait, don’t leave yet – with the prize being a trip to space on Sir Richard Branson‘s Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo. Told ya.
NBC Announces Exclusive Series With Sir Richard Branson’S Virgin Galactic And Mark Burnett’S One Three Media Burnett’S Groundbreaking Adventure Competition ‘Space Race’ To Give The Winning Everyday Person A Ticket To Space
Universal City, CA – Oct. 3, 2013 — NBC today announced an exclusive deal with Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline, and Mark Burnett’s One Three Media to create the spectacular unscripted series, “Space Race.” “Space Race” is a groundbreaking, elimination competition series where everyday people...
NBC Announces Exclusive Series With Sir Richard Branson’S Virgin Galactic And Mark Burnett’S One Three Media Burnett’S Groundbreaking Adventure Competition ‘Space Race’ To Give The Winning Everyday Person A Ticket To Space
Universal City, CA – Oct. 3, 2013 — NBC today announced an exclusive deal with Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline, and Mark Burnett’s One Three Media to create the spectacular unscripted series, “Space Race.” “Space Race” is a groundbreaking, elimination competition series where everyday people...
- 10/3/2013
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
Forget those gas-guzzling flying cars. Now you can drive and fly while saving lots of money on fuel.
Watch out, Terrafugia: Flying car competition is coming your way and it's much more efficient. The BiPod, developed by Scaled Composites founder Burt Rutan, is already taking test flights. And don't write this off as an aviation geek's pipe dream--Scaled Composites is the company behind Virgin Galactic's spacecraft and launch vehicles, including SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnight Two. It's also a subsidiary of Northrup Grumman.
The hybrid flying car, dubbed Model 367 BiPod, went from preliminary design to inaugural flight (in March) in just four months, according to Aviation Week. The two-seater, which is designed to be driven like a car from the left cockpit and flown like a plan on the right, features two 450cc internal combustion engines, 15 kW motors on both the driving wheels and the motor-driven propellers, and lithium batteries that are recharged during flight.
Watch out, Terrafugia: Flying car competition is coming your way and it's much more efficient. The BiPod, developed by Scaled Composites founder Burt Rutan, is already taking test flights. And don't write this off as an aviation geek's pipe dream--Scaled Composites is the company behind Virgin Galactic's spacecraft and launch vehicles, including SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnight Two. It's also a subsidiary of Northrup Grumman.
The hybrid flying car, dubbed Model 367 BiPod, went from preliminary design to inaugural flight (in March) in just four months, according to Aviation Week. The two-seater, which is designed to be driven like a car from the left cockpit and flown like a plan on the right, features two 450cc internal combustion engines, 15 kW motors on both the driving wheels and the motor-driven propellers, and lithium batteries that are recharged during flight.
- 7/19/2011
- by Ariel Schwartz
- Fast Company
Another starship Enterprise just undertook a bold new mission: This time it's Virgin Galactic's premier space vehicle, which has flown its first manned glide flight. It's another successful step on the road to tourists in space.
The tiny spaceship in question is the Vss Enterprise, a bullet-shaped wonder of carbon composite material with a design that's evolved from, but essentially similar to the even tinier SpaceShipOne--Burt Rutan's original X-Prize winning private spacecraft. Yesterday, 10/10/10 (Douglas Adams day, coincidentally) Enterprise slipped its connector to the large, gangly Vms Eve mothership at about 45,000-feet altitude (about half as high again as most airliners you've traveled in typically fly, and just below Concorde's habitual stomping ground) and then undertook an 11 minute unpowered glide back to Virgin's Air and Space Port in Mojave. This flight was designed to test out the flight characteristics of Enterprise, and pretty much simulates the final phase...
The tiny spaceship in question is the Vss Enterprise, a bullet-shaped wonder of carbon composite material with a design that's evolved from, but essentially similar to the even tinier SpaceShipOne--Burt Rutan's original X-Prize winning private spacecraft. Yesterday, 10/10/10 (Douglas Adams day, coincidentally) Enterprise slipped its connector to the large, gangly Vms Eve mothership at about 45,000-feet altitude (about half as high again as most airliners you've traveled in typically fly, and just below Concorde's habitual stomping ground) and then undertook an 11 minute unpowered glide back to Virgin's Air and Space Port in Mojave. This flight was designed to test out the flight characteristics of Enterprise, and pretty much simulates the final phase...
- 10/11/2010
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
Nasa is seeking funding plans/requests for information for three projects that give us insight into some of its future plans: The watchwords are innovative, fast, and new. Is Nasa trying to shed its lumbering institutional ways?
In the early 1990s Nasa's then chief Dan Goldin spearheaded a (ultimately controversial) campaign to radically shake up the heavily institutionalized industry. Instead of super-long-lead programs, endlessly reinventing the wheel, and pursuing dead-end science or engineering experiments, Goldin wanted Nasa to think "Faster, Better, Cheaper." This was meant to promote radical thinking and increased risk-taking, with the understanding that you can plan to mitigate against a million low-percentage accidents that could befall a spacecraft, but there are millions more still out there that are unknown. There was even a "Badge of Courage" program to reward employees who adopted the thinking.
This was nearly 20 years ago, but Nasa's just released three "Requests for Information...
In the early 1990s Nasa's then chief Dan Goldin spearheaded a (ultimately controversial) campaign to radically shake up the heavily institutionalized industry. Instead of super-long-lead programs, endlessly reinventing the wheel, and pursuing dead-end science or engineering experiments, Goldin wanted Nasa to think "Faster, Better, Cheaper." This was meant to promote radical thinking and increased risk-taking, with the understanding that you can plan to mitigate against a million low-percentage accidents that could befall a spacecraft, but there are millions more still out there that are unknown. There was even a "Badge of Courage" program to reward employees who adopted the thinking.
This was nearly 20 years ago, but Nasa's just released three "Requests for Information...
- 8/25/2010
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
All pointers say that in the next budget from the Obama government, Nasa's moonshot Constellation program will be axed. It's not necessarily the end of the dream, though: The plan is to involve private space companies much more.
Constellation has already cost $9 billion, and closing it will result in even more costs incurred in the form of pay-offs to big contractors like Lockheed Martin. But the proposal from the Office of Management and Budget is to cancel it rather than refine it or delay it as had been previously mooted, because without an additional $3 billion per year, Constellation would likely fail to ever deliver its planned suite of Ares rockets and space vehicles destined for the moon and servicing the International Space Station.
If that is the path that the President chooses to follow, you can bet it'll be controversial as well as sad. The moonshot plans announced by George W. Bush...
Constellation has already cost $9 billion, and closing it will result in even more costs incurred in the form of pay-offs to big contractors like Lockheed Martin. But the proposal from the Office of Management and Budget is to cancel it rather than refine it or delay it as had been previously mooted, because without an additional $3 billion per year, Constellation would likely fail to ever deliver its planned suite of Ares rockets and space vehicles destined for the moon and servicing the International Space Station.
If that is the path that the President chooses to follow, you can bet it'll be controversial as well as sad. The moonshot plans announced by George W. Bush...
- 2/1/2010
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
Sir Richard Branson has landed a Us series documenting his efforts to make space tourism a reality. According to WENN, National Geographic Channel's four-episode Virgin Galactic show will follow the billionaire mogul and engineer Burt Rutan's attempts to send 50,000 people into space over a 10-year period. Branson unveiled his Vss Enterprise spacecraft last month with plans to launch the (more)...
- 1/15/2010
- by By Aaron Broverman
- Digital Spy
Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has landed a new reality TV series, documenting his efforts to make space tourism a reality.
Branson unveiled his Vss Enterprise spacecraft last month with plans to launch the first Virgin Galactic flights in 2011.
National Geographic Channel's four-episode Virgin Galactic series will follow the billionaire mogul and engineer Burt Rutan's efforts to send 50,000 people into space over a 10-year period.
The series is Branson's second foray into TV in recent months. Reality series Fly Girls, about flight attendants on his Virgin America Airline, is currently in production for U.S. network CW.
Virgin Galactic is set to premiere in the spring.
Branson unveiled his Vss Enterprise spacecraft last month with plans to launch the first Virgin Galactic flights in 2011.
National Geographic Channel's four-episode Virgin Galactic series will follow the billionaire mogul and engineer Burt Rutan's efforts to send 50,000 people into space over a 10-year period.
The series is Branson's second foray into TV in recent months. Reality series Fly Girls, about flight attendants on his Virgin America Airline, is currently in production for U.S. network CW.
Virgin Galactic is set to premiere in the spring.
- 1/15/2010
- WENN
National Geographic Channel has given th green light to "Virgin Galactic," a series which chronicles the efforts of Virgin's Richard Branson to make space tourism a reality. Premiering in the spring, series will depict Branson and engineer Burt Rutan's efforts to create a business that will send 50,000 people into space in a period of ten years. This marks the second TV effort of Branson with the other being "Fly Girls," a reality series in production for the CW which focuses on flight attendants on the Virgin America airline.
- 1/14/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
"Dallas" star Victoria Principal will be going to outer space. The erstwhile Pamela Ewing on the CBS soap has purchased a ticket to ride in the world's first commercial passenger spacecraft.
The 59-year-old actress excitedly told People magazine that she will be riding the Vss Enterprise, which was unveiled in the Mojave Desert by Sir Richard Branson and Burt Rutan on Monday.
The ticket to travel outside earth costs 0,000, with flights set to begin in 2011.
The spacecraft will house six passengers and two pilots.
The 59-year-old actress excitedly told People magazine that she will be riding the Vss Enterprise, which was unveiled in the Mojave Desert by Sir Richard Branson and Burt Rutan on Monday.
The ticket to travel outside earth costs 0,000, with flights set to begin in 2011.
The spacecraft will house six passengers and two pilots.
- 12/9/2009
- icelebz.com
Entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, owner of 'Virgin Galactic' has revealed 'SpaceShipTwo' (SS2) and its mothership, 'Vms Eve' (WhiteKnightTwo) ushering in a new era of 'recreational', commercial space flight, with daily flights set to commence from 'Spaceport America' in New Mexico.
Tickets cost $200,000 and deposits start from $20,000.
Designed by Burt Rutan, construction of the world’s first manned commercial spaceship began in 2007.
The SS2 design will be refined and completed during an extensive test flying program, capable of carrying up to 6 passenger astronauts and up to 2 pilot astronauts into space on a sub-orbital flight.
SS2 will be attached to WK2, named Eve after Branson’s mother, carrying SS2 to above 50,000 feet (16 kilometres) before the spaceship is dropped, firing a rocket motor to launch into space.
Sneak Peek "Virgin Galactic"...
Tickets cost $200,000 and deposits start from $20,000.
Designed by Burt Rutan, construction of the world’s first manned commercial spaceship began in 2007.
The SS2 design will be refined and completed during an extensive test flying program, capable of carrying up to 6 passenger astronauts and up to 2 pilot astronauts into space on a sub-orbital flight.
SS2 will be attached to WK2, named Eve after Branson’s mother, carrying SS2 to above 50,000 feet (16 kilometres) before the spaceship is dropped, firing a rocket motor to launch into space.
Sneak Peek "Virgin Galactic"...
- 12/8/2009
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Beam her up, Scotty! Former Dallas star Victoria Principal has signed up to take a ride in the world's first commercial passenger spacecraft, the Vss Enterprise, which was unveiled Monday in the Mojave Desert by space pioneers Sir Richard Branson and Burt Rutan. "Going into space fulfills many desires I have of seeing the planet, going fast, going someplace very few people have been - and hopefully coming back down!" Principal tells People. The actress, who is also a skin-care magnate and an amateur race car driver, says space travel has always been her fantasy. She wrote a TV movie...
- 12/8/2009
- by Howard Breuer
- PEOPLE.com
Forget Nasa's giant rockets, forget even the Russian Space Agency's vintage but reliable Soyuz vehicles: The future of space travel for you and me (assuming we're filthy rich) is in private hands. Jeff Bezos' and Richard Branson's, actually.
Jeff Bezos' Mystery Blue Origin Rocket
Jeff Bezos, better known as founder and CEO of Amazon.com has a sideline you might not have heard about. The fact you've not heard about it isn't perhaps a surprise--his Blue Origin spaceflight project has been largely shrouded in mystery, despite interest from Nasa.
But just recently the Blue Origin project's timeline was publicized on the Web site, particularly highlighting the timing for human flight into space--2012. Unmanned launches of science experiments are expected in 2011, and three experiments have already been selected.
Not much is known about the actual vehicle itself, which is dubbed New Shepard, apart from its vertical launch and vertical...
Jeff Bezos' Mystery Blue Origin Rocket
Jeff Bezos, better known as founder and CEO of Amazon.com has a sideline you might not have heard about. The fact you've not heard about it isn't perhaps a surprise--his Blue Origin spaceflight project has been largely shrouded in mystery, despite interest from Nasa.
But just recently the Blue Origin project's timeline was publicized on the Web site, particularly highlighting the timing for human flight into space--2012. Unmanned launches of science experiments are expected in 2011, and three experiments have already been selected.
Not much is known about the actual vehicle itself, which is dubbed New Shepard, apart from its vertical launch and vertical...
- 11/24/2009
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
Tomorrow, America's first port for leisure space flight begins construction, with Virgin Galactic as its anchor tenant.
And you thought space tourism was just a pipe dream: Tomorrow, Spaceport America, designed by Foster + Partners and located in New Mexico, breaks ground. Festivities are underway today in celebration of the milestone, including a mariachi band (this being New Mexico, after all). Governor Bill Richardson will preside over the official groundbreaking. The project's $200 million price tag will be funded by taxpayers; all told, it's expected to create upwards of 500 jobs over the next four years. "It's real," as Steve Landeene, the spaceport's executive director, told Mother Nature Network. "You're not talking about things drawn on paper anymore. The boondoggle factor has started to disappear."
The spaceport's anchor tenant is Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company founded by daredeveil business-mogul Sir Richard Branson. The company will be flying a two-stage aircraft designed by Burt Rutan,...
And you thought space tourism was just a pipe dream: Tomorrow, Spaceport America, designed by Foster + Partners and located in New Mexico, breaks ground. Festivities are underway today in celebration of the milestone, including a mariachi band (this being New Mexico, after all). Governor Bill Richardson will preside over the official groundbreaking. The project's $200 million price tag will be funded by taxpayers; all told, it's expected to create upwards of 500 jobs over the next four years. "It's real," as Steve Landeene, the spaceport's executive director, told Mother Nature Network. "You're not talking about things drawn on paper anymore. The boondoggle factor has started to disappear."
The spaceport's anchor tenant is Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company founded by daredeveil business-mogul Sir Richard Branson. The company will be flying a two-stage aircraft designed by Burt Rutan,...
- 6/18/2009
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
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