Clearly there is room for a number of locations for suborbital personal spaceflight. If all goes well, this will be a rising tide that lifts many spaceports, and for the first time enables a true...

It’s bringing 21st-century racing into people’s personal living rooms. … It’s really the mix of NASCAR excitement and spaceflight,

The New Mexico proposal was stronger, specifically on the strength of their financial bid, … Governor Richardson is personally very excited about the whole space business and about building New Mexico into a central hub...

Adventure travel is the fastest growing segment of the leisure travel business. And these X-Prize vehicles are basically the first step for future space-seeking adventure travelers,

Prizes add a really important mix to allow breakthroughs, because peer-reviewed research is typically focused on small, incremental advances.

so important to the future of space exploration and space travel.

For me, it’s sort of a remembrance of ‘Star Wars’ pod racing.

From my standpoint, I think watching World Wrestling Entertainment where the competitors are wresting both during the zero-G and 1.8-G portions [of flight] could be a lot of fun.

Our hope is that the X Prize Cup activities will help bring suborbital tourism operators to the southern New Mexico site for year-round passenger launch operations,

You have raised a tide that will bring billions of dollars into the industry and fund other teams to compete. We will begin a new era of spaceflight.

These teams with their different approaches show real out-of-the-box thinking,

For me, it is a remembrance of sort of ‘Star Wars’ pod racing, … Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace.

There is a tremendous economy of scale when you can manage multiple prizes though a single organization ‘¦ since after a prize is announced, there is a lot of waiting and coaching until the teams...

This is where innovation begins. It’s all part of the same ‘¦mission, which is to make space personally accessible to the public.

And that’s what we need to do in the space world to get to that point,

In my role as chairman of the X Prize, I had approached well over one hundred corporate chief executive officers regarding sponsorship. Few were able to grasp the importance of this new market…and those who...

We went through a lengthy selection process … narrowing it down to Florida and New Mexico. Both states provided us their best and final bid and they both offered very attractive opportunities.

It’s got to be participatory. It’s about bringing 21st century racing into people’s living rooms.

The Rocket Racing League will inspire people of all ages to once again look up into the sky to find inspiration and excitement,

New aerospace technologies coupled with the spirit of competition will not only extend the boundaries of entertainment, but continue the public’s appetite for space ignited a year ago when the Ansari X-Prize was awarded.

We’re not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here,

Now we must keep the competition going, and help push the envelope faster, higher, and cheaper, to build the safe spaceships that will carry all of us to space. To this end, we have partnered...

We need to be willing to take risks we were willing to at the beginning of space exploration and every other frontier, … We’re not going to have these breakthroughs until we have a profitable...

You’re flying at an altitude that you wouldn’t be able to use a parachute. The safest thing to do — if there’s a problem — is to come back and land, just like a regular...

It’s a very frustrated market.

Today we have made history. Today we go to the stars.

In one sense, the X Prize has already succeeded. We’ve sparked a diverse set of vehicles that are being tested and built. Secondly, we’ve got people excited about this market place.

My goal is to create an event that will be the Oshkosh or Grand Prix of space an event that will attract space fans and families from around the world who want to come and...

Space for far too long has been something we just see on TV or read about, and not something that we can personally participate in. And that’s what our goal is here, to make it...

All of a sudden, something that was dangerous was attractive to potential sponsors who saw it as a highly visible thing, like race cars. Or it was attractive to wealthy individuals who were looking to...

My interest is simple. Since the age of 9 I wanted to fly in space,

We expect that the first X Prize Cup will actually occur in the summer of 2006. We have a couple of years to get the infrastructure in place, … We’re basically creating a new business...

We are very proud of our partnership with New Mexico, Las Cruses and Governor Richardson. We’re working to make the X Prize Cup an exciting annual event that will move the industry forward at the...

This past fall, Zero-G was used in the premiere of season two of the TV show ‘The Biggest Loser.’ For this airing the producers created a competition where teams needed to gather colored plastic balls...

In the genomics world, we are supporting Craig Venter’s original vision of getting an ability to have gene sequencing occur for the masses. While we have a single genome sequenced, the real benefits for humanity...

It is definitely an unusual flight trajectory. But it is not a dangerous flight trajectory.

These vehicles will literally sport a 20-foot bright brilliant flame out the back.

Lindbergh made the flight to win a prize, not as a personal objective. I really saw the power of that prize written out for me in hard numbers: Nine teams spent [a combined] $400,000 to...

We’re creating an event that has multiple things happening over two-weeks and during a fixed period of time. There’s going to be lots going on.

Prizes change the public perception about an issue. The more prize money, the more the issue is seen as important by the public.