X-Prize Founder Peter Diamandis On The Lunar Lander
Challenge
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ANN Special Feature -- X-Prize Foundation
Chairman Dr. Peter Diamandis: 05.05.06 (ANN Special
Feature, with Peter Diamandis on the new Lunar Lander
Challenge.)
Thanks to the efforts of the X Prize Foundation, commercial
space flight is a reality -- and now, in collaboration with NASA's
Centennial Challenge program, the foundation is setting its
sights on a new goal... the moon.
Remote-Control Scale Model To Fly Before End Of '06
Is it the military's aerial tanker/transport/bomber of the
future... or a future Boeing A380-fighter (and successor
to the cancelled Sonic Cruiser program)? Well,
it could one day be both... but at the moment, the X-48B is an
eight-and-one-half-percent scale model of an advanced concept,
fuel-efficient "blended wing" airplane designed and built to test
the concept of Blended Wing Body aircraft at NASA's Langley
Research Center.
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