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Ansari X Prize	Prize offered for the first privately financed reusable vehicle
	X Prize

	A $10 million prize offered to the first privately financed team to fly at least one person to an altitude of 100 km twice within 2 weeks in the same vehicle, which must be capable of carrying 3 people. Announced in May 1996, the prize attracted 16 teams to announce their intention to compete in mid-1997.
	Links: Practical Tourism in Space The Japanese Rocket Society's Space Tourism Research Space Tourism - The Surprising New Industry The JRS Space Tourism Study Program Phase 2 Some Views on Space Tourism from the United States Dynamica Research General Public Space Travel and Tourism Legal and Regulatory Issues for Passenger Space Travel Progress Towards Space Tourism in Japan A Cost Engineered Launch Vehicle for Space Tourism Space Tourism in Japan - the Growing Consensus The Future of Commercial Airlines General Public Space Travel and Tourism Volume 2 - Workshop Proceedings Space Tourism and its Effects on Space Commercialization Space: The New Tourism Market The Space Tourism Industry in 2030 Creation of an Accredited Passenger Regulatory Category for Space Tourism Services Near-Term Prospects For Space Tourism Space Policy, Space Tourism and Economic Policy The Cost of Capital for Space Tourism Ventures Public Choice Economics and Space Policy: Realising Space Tourism Space Tourism - Its Importance, Its History, and a Recent Extraordinary Development The Business of Commercializing Space Space Tourism and RLVs: You Can't Have One Without the Other! Developing Viable Financing Models for Space Tourism The First 100 Years of Public Space Travel Growing Popular Interest in Space Tourism: Challenge and Opportunity for Space Agencies Lessons of ASCENT - Messages for Industry, the Federal Government and Spaceport Authorities The Future of Lunar Tourism The "Signal-to-Noise Ratio" in Financing New Space Startups Designing the Orbital Space Tourism Experience The Economic Benefits of Space Tourism New Commercial Opportunities in Space Mex-LunarHab (MLH) - A Mexican Space Habitat Settlement on the Moon Economic Benefits of Space Tourism to Europe Flight Mechanics of Manned Sub-Orbital Reusable Launch Vehicles with Recommendations for Launch and Recovery
	See Also: X Prize Cup

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