Burt Rutan and his team are awarded the prize. AP Science via Yahoo!:
The designers of the first privately manned rocket to burst into space were handed a $10 million check Saturday, a prize designed to encourage technology that will open the heavens to tourists.Posted by jackhodgson at November 7, 2004 07:20 AMSpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan accepted the Ansari X Prize money, along with a 150-pound trophy, as a chase plane flew over the ceremony in a field adjacent to the St. Louis Science Center.