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Ansari XPrize, a Century-Old Idea is New Again
Tech billionaire Anousheh Ansari, CEO of the XPrize Foundation, used her wealth to create the XPrize. It was meant to get the creative juices and competitive spirits of the private sector flowing. The idea of an attractive prize to spur the growth of an industry is one that has proven effective even more than a century ago also in Los Angeles.
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E1: Wings - Aviation Takes Flight in Early Los Angeles
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Aviation takes flight in early Los Angeles, becoming an industry of dreamers, risk takers and entrepreneurs. The region is America’s “arsenal of democracy” during World War II, as two million workers build 300,000 aircrafts.
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E3: A Space Odyssey - Southern California Spearheads Mankind’s Greatest Achievement
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E4: Back to the Future - A New Space Age Dawns in Southern California
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The end of the Cold War brings massive layoffs but tech billionaires choose Southern California to launch their space companies. Though committed to the “democratization” of space, SpaceX and Virgin Orbit include the Pentagon as a major customer.
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The idea of the Ansari XPrize is one with history that dates back more than a century.
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Sue Finley began working at NASA in 1958, the year President Eisenhower announced its creation. As society changed around her, Finley also navigated the complexities of being a woman with a career, in engineering no less.
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In the summer of 1964, Mariner 4 began transmitting images of Mars, but a full picture of the Red Planet is more difficult than what you would think.
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