Tag: X Prize

For UMR grad, private funding is the X factor in space exploration

Posted by on May 28, 2005

University of Missouri-Rolla graduate Ed Tuck watched Space Ship One’s $10 million flight from his patio in California. As a business partner and advisor to some of the competitors for the Ansari X Prize, a challenge involving privately funded suborbital flight, Tuck had more than a passing interest.

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