Peter Diamandis
Peter Diamandis
Peter H. Diamandisis a Greek–American engineer, physician, and entrepreneur best known for being the founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, the co-founder and executive chairman of Singularity University and the co-author of the New York Times bestsellers Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think and BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World. He is also the former CEO and co-founder of the Zero Gravity Corporation, the co-founder and vice chairman of Space Adventures...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth20 May 1961
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For me, it is a remembrance of sort of 'Star Wars' pod racing, ... Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace.
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For me, it's sort of a remembrance of 'Star Wars' pod racing.
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It's bringing 21st-century racing into people's personal living rooms. ... It's really the mix of NASCAR excitement and spaceflight.
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It's got to be participatory. It's about bringing 21st century racing into people's living rooms.
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It will be a couple of weeks about speed and excitement...technology and adventure for the whole family.
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You have raised a tide that will bring billions of dollars into the industry and fund other teams to compete. We will begin a new era of spaceflight.
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Today we have made history. Today we go to the stars.
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We're not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here,
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You're flying at an altitude that you wouldn't be able to use a parachute. The safest thing to do -- if there's a problem -- is to come back and land, just like a regular flight would.
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This past fall, Zero-G was used in the premiere of season two of the TV show 'The Biggest Loser.' For this airing the producers created a competition where teams needed to gather colored plastic balls that were released and floated free. It was a very successful competition with great visuals.
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This is where innovation begins. It's all part of the samemission, which is to make space personally accessible to the public.
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And that's what we need to do in the space world to get to that point. It's the cost of operations that makes the space shuttle cost three-quarters of a billion dollars per launch. Fuel is one percent of the cost. It's the operations that we have to work on.
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And that's what we need to do in the space world to get to that point,
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Space for far too long has been something we just see on TV or read about, and not something that we can personally participate in. And that's what our goal is here, to make it something you can personally get involved in.