X Prize = $10 Million

24 April 2003

Voyager

What is the X Prize? Get three people up to 62.5 miles of altitude in a vehicle, land them safely and do it again within 2 weeks. Do it and you win $10 million. A flight from Dallas to Seattle recently flew at 39,000 feet. That’s not quite 7.5 miles. This is seven times higher than that.

Here’s our new favorite to win it all. Burt Rutan pulled off Voyager. He can do this!

  • * * UPDATE * * * November 24, 2003: Steven Vore points out that Dick Rutan actually co-piloted Voyager around the world. Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites is/was the designer.

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