Sentences with phrase «first private company»

The company also stands to benefit from Google's XPrize competition, which promises $ 20 million to the first private company that can land a module on the moon, travel 500 meters across its surface, and beam back high definition video and images.

Billionaire Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. — SpaceX for short — became the first private company to launch a spacecraft into orbit and retrieve it in 2010.

A machine - based learning platform called Alice is the first private company to benefit from Melinda Gates» three - year - old initiative to boost women in tech fields.

Moon Express would become the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon if successful.»

If anything, Bezos was returning the favor stemming from the zinger Musk hit him with last month, when Blue Origin became the first private company to successfully land a reusable rocket that's traveled to and from space.

SpaceX is the first private company to deliver cargo to the International Space Station, which it did for the first time in 2012.

«We are really proud to be the first private company to implement Shelter's innovative Tenancy Deposit Loan Scheme,» said Kris Engskov, president of Starbucks EMEA.

Astrobotic will be the first private company to regularly deliver customer payloads and communication services to the Moon's surface.

That would be Virgin Galactic (VG), the pet project of British billionaire Sir Richard Branson, whose nascent spaceliner may be just a year or two away from becoming the first private company to blast paying passengers into space.

The first private company to offer regular trips to the moon says it will sell sponsorship rights for its spacecraft to cover equipment costs.

The first private company offering regular trips to the lunar surface plans to start flights in 2020, shuttling people two at a time on exploratory missions.

I've now been involved in the world of public education for 15 years, as the founder and CEO of Edison Schools, one of the country's first private companies to take on the challenge of improving public schools.

BurkeyLoan isn't the first mortgage lender to offer loans with LTV's of 120 %; in fact, it isn't the first private company to offer a new solution.

DTA was the first private company to offer Texas defensive driving and we currently have the largest network of defensive driving agencies in the state.