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Rocketeers…Start Your Engines! X Prize Cup Planned

A new twist in the X Prize competition to foster privately built suborbital spaceships is soon to be announced, Peter Diamandis, head of the X Prize Foundation, said Wednesday. An X Prize Cup is to be staged, hosted at one of over a dozen spaceports now under development.

..."What we’ll be announcing very soon is called the X Prize Cup. We are in discussions with 15 spaceports in the U.S. today that want to capture this kind of business," Diamandis said. A Request for Proposals is to be issued next week inviting spaceports to vie for the locale to stage the X Prize Cup, he said. ...