Billionaire space race (SEDS). Later, Jeff Bezos became a chapter president of SEDS. In the 1990s, Diamandis, dissolute with the state of space development, decided to spur it on and spark the suborbital space tourism market, by initiating a prize, the X Prize. This led to Paul Allen becoming involved in the competition, creating the Scaled Composites Tier One platform of SpaceShipOne and White Knight One which won the Ansari X-Prize in the 2000s. The technology of the winning entrant was then licensed by Richard Branson's Virgin Group as a basis to found Virgin Galactic. The base techniques of Tier One also form
Space Coast Office of Tourism by 2011 when the final Space Shuttle mission took place, the Space Coast Office of Tourism argued that the reduced dependency on the industry would allow the region to cope with the expected economic downfall. The office is responsible for advertising, and traditionally they have focused on consumer markets. This has included advertising in newspapers (both within Florida and in parts of northwestern and southwestern United States), billboards, posters and television advertising, with their first television campaign screening in 1995. In 1992 the office had a budget of $2.5 million, of which $1 million was directed to consumer advertising. By