Peter Diamandis - Dr. Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation , which awarded the $10,000,000 Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight.
Diamandis is now focused on building the X PRIZE Foundation into a world-class prize institute whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. The X PRIZE is now developing X PRIZEs in fields such as Genomics, Automotive, Education, Medicine, Energy, and Social arenas.
Diamandis is an international leader in the commercial space arena, having founded and run many of the leading entrepreneurial companies in this sector. Diamandis also serves as the Chairman and CEO of Zero Gravity Corporation a commercial space company developing private, FAA-certified parabolic flight utilize Boeing 727-200 aircraft. He is the Chairman & co-founder of the Rocket Racing League. Diamandis is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of Space Adventures, the company which brokered the launches of four private citizens to the International Space Station.
In 1987, Diamandis co-founded the International Space University where he served as the University’s first managing director. Today he serves as a Trustee of the $30M ISU that is based in Strasbourg, France. Prior to ISU, Diamandis served as Chairman of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space an organization he founded at MIT in 1980. SEDS is the world’s largest student pro space organization.
Dr. Diamandis attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received his undergraduate degree in molecular genetics and graduate degree in aerospace engineering. After MIT he attended Harvard Medical School where he received his M.D. In 2005 he has was also awarded an honorary Doctorate from the International Space University.
He is the winner of the 2007 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Innovation, the 2006 Heinlein Award, the 2006 Lindbergh Award, the 2006 Wired RAVE Award, the 2006 Neil Armstrong Award for Aerospace Achievement and Leadership, the Konstantine Tsiolkovsky Award, twice the winner of the Aviation & Space Technology Laurel, and the 2003 World Technology Award for Space. In 8th grade, while living in New York, Dr. Diamandis won first place in the Estes rocket design contest.
Diamandis’ mission is to open the space frontier for humanity. His personal motto is: “The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!”
X-Prize Founder Peter Diamandis discusses how his passion for space travel has fueled innovation in science and technology, demonstrating that "nothing is impossible."
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Peter Diamandis is a philanthropic visionary whose noble efforts are as inspirational as they are salutary! Ghandi's quote of "Be the change you wish to see in the world." is obviously a principle that Peter Diamandis embraces with genuine passion and zeal! History will surely look back on him with reverence and adoration!
I can not say enough good things about Mr. Diamandis. This is truly visionary capitilism. Instead of using one capitol to enrich ones self at the expens of customers and workers or getting the government to finance the development and then finagling for governemnt contracts he has actually come up with ways to make capitol to work for the benefit of all. He is truly an example of what American capitolism should be. I can hardly wait to se what else they come up with.