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The X Prize is a series of monetary prizes for science and technology proposed by Dr. Peter Diamandis, the first of which, the Ansari X Prize, was a ten million dollar prize for a private spacecraft capable of reaching the edge of space.

The term X PRIZE may refer to any of the prizes:

• The Ansari X Prize, the original X PRIZE competition to create a private spaceflight vehicle
• The Archon X Prize, genomics competition to create a device to sequence 100 human genomes within 10 days or less
• The Automotive X Prize, engineering competition to create a fuel efficient clean car
• The Wirefly X Prize Cup, rocketry competition to create improved rockets
• The WTN X Prize, a new set of X Prizes inspired by the Ansari X Prize but potentially covering all areas of science and technology
• The X Prize Foundation

• Disambiguation pages