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American Space Prize
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This is a 50 million dollar prize to be awarded to the first team to privately go into orbit twice.
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Apophis Competition
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"...compete for $50,000 in prize money by designing a mission to rendezvous with and "tag" a potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid."
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Astronaut Glove Challenge
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"The Astronaut Glove Challenge and the separate Mechanical Counter Pressure (MCP) Glove Demonstration, to be conducted in 2007, is intended to promote the development of a highly dexterous and flexible glove resulting in a monetary award to the winning teams."
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CATS Prize
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Cheap Access to Space was a prize competition which preceeded the X-Prize. This prize was never won.
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Centennial Challenges
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"Welcome to Centennial Challenges, NASA's program of prize contests to stimulate innovation and competition in solar system exploration and ongoing NASA mission areas. By making awards based on actual achievements, instead of proposals, Centennial Challenges seeks novel solutions to NASA's mission challenges from non-traditional sources of innovation in academia, industry and the public."
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Google Lunar X Prize
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This is an amazing competition for the first team to land a rover on the moon and take panoramic images. The competition is being sponsored by Google.
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Heinleinprize
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"We are at a cusp, a decision point. We can decide to go one way, to the stars, and enjoy unlimited opportunities, unimagined possibilities, endless evolution, and eternal racial life. Or we can refuse the challenge, stay where we are --- and die."
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Lunar Excavation NASA Centennial Challenge
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Here is another competition from NASA.
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Lunar Lander Challenge
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"One small step for NASA, One giant leap for the X Prize"
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Lunar Lander Challenge
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This is a joint effort of NASA and the X-Prize foundation.
"The LLC will require a rocket capable of vertical takeoff and vertical landing to fly from one pad to another and back."
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Rocket Racing League
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"The Rocket Racing League is an aerospace sports and entertainment organization that combines the competition of racing with the excitement of rocketry. The RRL was established by X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis and two-time Indianapolis 500 champion team partner Granger Whitelaw to advance the technology and increase public awareness of space travel."
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Space Prizes
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"prizes to inspire space technology achievements"
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V Prize
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"The V Prize is being designed to create a competitive and innovative environment for a commercial space launch firm to build a hypersonic suborbital vehicle to fly humans from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia to a yet to be named location in Europe in under 45-minutes."
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X-Prize
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This is the competition that sparked a fire.
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