Will space tourism take off? The first woman to embark on a commercial voyage off Earth explains what's next for the industry
In October, she became chief executive of the XPrize Foundation, which runs incentive competitions to solve humanity’s biggest problems. To jumpstart innovations in commercial rocketry, her family funded the $10 million Ansari XPrize for the first private company to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks, a prize awarded in 2004 to the experimental spaceplane SpaceShipOne.
In 2006, she co-founded Prodea Systems, a digital technology company developing health and elder-care applications for the
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