On October 4, SpaceShipOne won the Ansari X Prize, completing two flights within two weeks, flying with the equivalent weight of 3 persons, and doing so while reusing at least 80 % of the vehicle hardware.
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Under the rules of the competition, teams must take a pilot and two passengers, or the equivalent weight, to an altitude of at least 100 kilometers twice within two weeks by the end of this year.
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The prize, intended to spur development of space tourism, is a competition for privately developed spacecraft capable of carrying three people _ or a pilot and equivalent weight _ 62 miles high ( 100 kilometers ).
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SpaceShipOne was to fly with a pilot and the equivalent weight of two passengers aboard, in accordance with rules requiring X Prize contenders to be capable of carrying three people on a suborbital hop into space.
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Under the rules of the competition, the winners must take a pilot and two passengers, or the equivalent weight, to an altitude of at least 100 kilometers twice within two weeks by the end of this year.
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The theft inspired German artist Fritz Balthaus in 2009 to cast bronze ingots of equivalent weight which, arranged in a form approximating Moore's sculpture, are displayed as " Pure Moore " at the Federal Criminal Police Office in Berlin.
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Since nothing remotely resembling the Panjandrum had ever been constructed before, the trials began with trepidation & mdash; only a handful of cordite rockets were attached to the wheels, and the payload was simulated by an equivalent weight of sand.
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Haworth, who hoists the equivalent weight of a F-15 fighter plane during daily 2 & amp; frac12;-hour workouts, took such a big lead into the trials that she qualified for the first Olympic women's weightlifting competition merely by signing her name.
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The final death blow for the use of equivalent weights for the elements was Dmitri Mendeleev's presentation of his periodic table in 1869, in which he related the chemical properties of the elements to the approximate order of their atomic weights.
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In contrast to equivalent weight, conventional ion-exchange resins are usually described in terms of their ion exchange capacity ( IEC ), which is the multiplicative inverse or reciprocal of the equivalent weight, i . e ., IEC = 1 / EW.
