About CNN

CNN.com is the world’s leaders in online news and information delivery. Staffed 24 hours, seven days a week by a dedicated staff in CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, and in bureaus worldwide, CNN.com relies heavily on CNN’s global team of almost 4,000 news professionals. CNN.com features the latest multimedia technologies, from live video streaming to audio packages to searchable archives of news features and background information.

Scaled Composites, LLC is an aerospace and specialty composites development company located in Mojave, California. Founded in 1982 by Burt Rutan, Scaled has broad experience in air vehicle design, tooling, and manufacturing, specialty composite structure design, analysis and fabrication, and development flight test.

Paul G. Allen owns and invests in a suite of companies exploring the potential of digital communications. Allen’s business strategy includes encouraging communication and synergy between his portfolio companies for mutual benefit in the areas of technology, new media, biotechnology, entertainment, telecommunications and entertainment. Allen co-founded Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates in 1975 and served as the company’s executive vice president of research and new product development, the company’s senior technology post, until 1983.

Cycore is a graphics software company, focused on the Internet, headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden. Cycore was founded in 1996 by a group of engineers, led by Jerry Pettersson. Cycore is the leader in interactive 3D graphics software for e–business. ELRO is a channel and 3D modeling partner of Cycore.