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Fly into Space with the innovative contest from the makers of 7-UP. You win a seat on one of the first public sub-orbital flights when made available.
If they do not get in the air by 2009, they get 300,000.
The grand prize is a suborbital trip to the fringe of space, on a yet-to-be-flown craft that's based on SpaceShipOne technology. Why SpaceShipOne?
Because the giveaway deal is being put together through the auspices of the X Prize Foundation.
The X Prize foundation is pretty cool, and so is this contest. This is a marketing wet dream.Virgin galactic is in hte forefront for public orbit,
and thier is a guarantee if you can't get up by 2009..
It would be up to SpaceShipOne's team at Mojave Aerospace Ventures to make sure the seat is open on a spaceship that has licensed the SS1 technology.
For now, the obvious candidate is Virgin Galactic, the only known licensee, but the agreement could also be fulfilled by "someone else who licensed
the technology," Diamandis said.
Hmm. What happens if there are multiple licensees, which would be allowed under Virgin Galactic's non-exclusive agreement with Mojave Aerospace
Ventures? "I have no idea," Diamandis said.
If no one can make good on the ticket by the end of 2009, the winner would just get $300,000 in cash.
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What will Coke do to counter this summer 
[edit on 27-5-2005 by esdad71]
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