Private Space Ship Lands Safely, Nears Prize
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - SpaceShipOne landed safely on  Wednesday in the California desert after a wild corkscrew-like  ascent into space, and is now a step closer to a $10 million  prize intended to boost commercial-space travel.
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MOJAVE, Calif. -- SpaceShipOne is one flight away from clinching the Ansari X Prize, a $10 million award for the first privately developed manned rocket to reach space twice within 14 days.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - SpaceShipOne, the world's first  privately funded manned spacecraft, on Monday reached space for  the second time in less than a week to win a $10 million prize  designed to spur commercial space travel.
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The first Malaysian astronaut in space returns safely to Earth from the International Space Station.
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SpaceShipOne, a stubby, three-seat rocket plane, hurtled to a height of 111,996m, surpassing its target altitude without the heart-stopping barrel rolls that vexed the craft&#39;s qualifying flight last week.
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Burt Rutan isn&#39;t one to mince words. Just minutes after the world&#39;s first privately funded space craft touched down at the Mojave (Calif.
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The age of commercial space flight officially begins Monday as SpaceShipOne completes its second successful flight into space to capture the Ansari X Prize. It's $10 million to the developers, who look forward to a bright future ahead. Dan Brekke reports from Mojave, California.
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A Soyuz capsule made a precision landing in Kazakhstan Sunday, safely delivering two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut to Earth after several months on the International Space Station.
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SpaceShipOne on Monday captured the $10 million Ansari X prize when it made a second flight in less than a week to the edge of space.
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The rocket plane SpaceShipOne is just one flight away from claiming the Ansari X-Prize, a $10m award designed to kick-start private space travel.
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The first private manned rocket to reach space soared toward the edge of the atmosphere again in an unexpectedly bumpy ride Wednesday in the first half of a bid to earn a 10 million (8.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - The world's first privately  funded manned spacecraft soared to the blackened frontiers of  space for the second time in a week on Monday, setting set a  new altitude record and clinching a $10 million prize designed  to spur commercial space travel
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MOJAVE, California -- SpaceShipOne made history Monday and triumphed in the international Ansari X Prize race to launch the first privately built spacecraft.
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A Soyuz spacecraft with a replacement crew for the International Space Station docked safely with the orbiting complex.
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After an unplanned &quot;victory roll&quot; as SpaceShipOne climbed to more than 63 miles above Earth, civilian astronaut Mike Melvill glided the rocket plane to a safe landing Wednesday, putting his team in the lead to capture the $10 million Ansari X Prize
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Russian and US spacemen have landed safely back on Earth after completing their mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Russians Yuri Shargin and Gennady Padalka and American Michael Fincke touched
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US rocketship SpaceShipOne has blasted into space for the second time in five days, staking claim to a $10-million prize for the first private manned space travel and setting a new altitude record.