These players have been through more in the space of one season than many of us witnessed in our entire careers.

I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.

I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.

I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.

It was quite amazing to see the ingenuity that was created by the Ansari X PRIZE for commercial space flight. We will be very interested to learn more about how the X PRIZE Foundation identifies areas where exceptional innovation can spark revolutionary change, especially in the automotive industry where hundreds of billions of dollars are invested in existing capital equipment and processes.

We understand flight mechanics and what a dogfight in space should feel like. We felt we could knock this one out of the park.