> Was he the one who kickstarted X Prize or SpaceshipOne 20 years ago? SpaceshipOne's design was a stroke of genius for the purpose of winning a narrowly defin

> Was he the one who kickstarted X Prize or SpaceshipOne 20 years ago? SpaceshipOne's design was a stroke of genius for the purpose of winning a narrowly defined contest. It is, however, a deadend when it comes to the pursuit of space travel: it can't even reach the Kármán line, let alone do any space travel (which requires orbital speeds at the very least), because it doesn't scale up.