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
The Settlement, British Virgin Islands and the island's airport, the small "Auguste George Airport" (airport code "NGD"), is about 1 mile northwest of the town. In 1672, Anegada was made part of the British colony Antigua and has been under British control ever since. San Diego Zoo Global has been running the Anegada Iguana Project since 1992, with the Iguana Headstart Facility being opened in 2003. Today, tourism is the main income source for the town even though commercial fishing also is a substantial business. The Settlement, British Virgin Islands The Settlement is the main and only town on Anegada in the British Virgin Islands