SpaceShipOne survives a scare
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MOJAVE, Calif. -- SpaceShipOne corkscrewed its way into space yesterday, succeeding in its first of two runs for the $10 million X Prize, but not before prompting the event&#39;s otherwise effusive commentator to drop an octave and utter, &quot;Uh-oh.
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ST. LOUIS -- It&#39;s a big day for a big check in St. Louis where the team behind a rocket plane called SpaceShipOne has accepted a $10 million prize for advancements in private space travel and tourism.
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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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The rolling experienced by SpaceShipOne on its first Ansari X Prize flight on Wednesday will not jeopardise the team&#39;s chances of winning the $10 million purse, team members said in a post-flight briefing.
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SpaceShipOne, the world's first privately built manned spacecraft, completed its third round-trip journey to space today, laying claim to the ten-million-dollar (U.S.) Ansari X Prize.
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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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LOS ANGELES - Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism faces a myriad of safety concerns - in the sky and on the ground - that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off...
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Satisfied that his spaceplane is sound despite a series of unexpected rolls during Wednesday's flight, Burt Rutan will send SpaceShipOne aloft as scheduled to try to capture the $10 million X Prize. By Dan Brekke.
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Despite a spectacular series of unplanned barrel rolls, SpaceShipOne completes the first of two compulsory flights that could net its developers the $10 million Ansari X Prize. Dan Brekke reports from Mojave, California.
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SpaceShipOne's aerobatic flight marks the first wild, wobbly steps toward space tourism.
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SpaceShipOne - as much a work of art as a groundbreaking flying machine â-as recast the mold for spaceflight established by NASA largely because it doesn&#39;t have to worry
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MOJAVE: SpaceShipOne has landed safely in the California desert after a wild corkscrew-like ascent into space, and is now a step closer to a $US10 million prize intended to boost commercial-space travel.
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So far, one entrant, SpaceShipOne of California, seems likely to win the prize for a successful manned spacecraft launch. But three other teams say they're still in the running. By Dan Brekke.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - SpaceShipOne, a three-seat  rocket plane with stubby wings and a nose studded with round  windows, lifted off from the wind-swept Mojave desert on  Wednesday in a bid to win a $10-million prize to spur  commercial space travel.
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Oct. 4 - A group of private citizens in California are hoping to make another giant leap for mankind. SpaceShipOne has already made it to space and back.
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Investors should not underestimate this latest space race.
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Get fun facts on SpaceShipOne, the first privately built manned spacecraft. For starters, the ship burns a mixture of rubber and laughing gas.