Space Race Fueled By Obsession

CBS News introduces us to Peter Diamandis, the man forgotten man really responsible for SpaceShipOne, which recently won the X-Prize by launching and recovering a private space plane into space twice within 14 days.

While all the attention from the October 4 flight went to "aviator Burt Rutan, who designed SpaceShipOne; to pilots Michael Melvill and Brian Binnie, who flew it in two separate suborbital flights a week apart; and to billionaire Paul Allen who financed it," Diamandis was the man with the vision who is president and chairman of the X-Prize organization.

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