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...Allen & Overy has hired Hendrik Röhricht as a partner of the firm’s private equity practice. He joins from Weil, Gotshal & Manges....
...With Allen’s money, Mr Rutan won the Ansari X Prize for private space flight — a $10m award that became the model for many other science prizes that have followed....
...Although the cash prizes in such contests can be lavish — the 1996 Ansari X Prize to build and launch a private spacecraft had a bounty of $10m — it is not the money that counts....
...Virgin’s rocket ships were to be based on the design of “SpaceShipOne”, the pioneering reusable vehicle backed by Microsoft founder Paul Allen that had just won the $10m Ansari X prize for the first private...
...Virgin’s rocket ships were to be based on the design of “SpaceShipOne”, the pioneering reusable vehicle backed by Paul Allen, Microsoft founder, that had just won the Ansari X prize for the first private...
...SS1 was funded by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. And now, Richard Branson’s company Virgin Galactic is developing SpaceShipTwo with Burt Rutan....
...It was won in 2004 by aerospace designer Burt Rutan and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. http://space.xprize.org/ansari-x-prize 2....
...His next project, SpaceShipOne, was funded by Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, and won the $10m Ansari X-Prize when in 2004 it became the first privately-financed craft to complete –...
...The reusable spacecraft, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, was launched mid-air from a carrier aeroplane and returned to a landing strip in the Mojave desert in California....
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