by Wela on 13 December 2005 00:47
The X Prize Foundation last year award $10 million to a team led by aircraft designer Burt Rutan and Microsoft's Paul Allen for a pair of suborbital flights aboard SpaceShipOne. NASA would need to offer $100 million to generate private interest in developing a vehicle for human orbital flight.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051212/spaceprize_spa.html