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The Space Shuttle Challenge
The idea is to launch a spacecraft up to what's known as the carman line, which is a hundred kilometers of the earth. Any team that can do that with a vehicle twice in two weeks with the same vehicle will win a ten million dollar price. It ends up taking quite a while to actually secure the funding for this project. The biggest donor ends up being the ansari family who founded a telecom empire and made a lot of money through that....