Brian Feeney talks about the da Vinci Project at MIT on Nov. 13. 2004 (photo credit: J. Foust)

Brian Feeney Speaks at MIT - Cambridge Mass. November 13, 2004 - Brian Feeney, team leader of GoldenPalace.com Space Program Powered by the da Vinci Project described the history and status of his team’s efforts during a speech at the SpaceVision2004 conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on November 13.

He said he started working on winning the X Prize the very week it was officially announced in May 1996. “I was living in Hong Kong at the time and happened to see it in one of the magazines,” he said. “I turned my battleship left and went for it. It had been a dream all my life to do something like this.”