NEW SPIRIT OF ST. LOUISSM AWARDS

Each year, The X PRIZE Foundation will award up to four NEW SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS Awards worth US $25,000 each - the same amount as the 1927 Orteig Prize. These cash awards will go to those individuals who, during the past year, make the strongest contribution towards the creation of low-cost, reusable spaceships.

A subcommittee of the NEW SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS Organization will solicit input from experts in the space community and choose those individuals whom they believe to have made the greatest contributions during the previous year. While applications are not actively solicited, a nomination form will be available after January 1, 1997.

The NEW SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS Award is open internationally to all who contribute to the dream of opening space to the general public. Awards will be made to individuals, not to organizations, groups or governments.

The NEW SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS Award will recognize and encourage both technical and non-technical breakthroughs. For example, the Committee seeks to identify and reward innovators who discover or demonstrate low-cost, high-performance space transportation technologies, who work to create improvements in the legal and regulatory regime for commercial space enterprises, or who contribute to an improved understanding of the medical aspects of human spaceflight.

The NEW SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS Award will be made each May (in commemoration of the date of Lindbergh's epic flight) at a ceremony hosted at the St. Louis Science Center.



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