Annual Competition for Public Space Flight
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Hoping to build on the momentum sparked by SpaceShipOne&#39;s dash into space, supporters of opening the heavens to civilians are turning the winner-take
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A beefed-up motor will boost the power of a rocket vying for the $10 million human space flight prize. SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded craft to carry a person to the edge of space in June.
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Commercial space flight doesn't offer too many opportunities for investors, but there is one tiny prospect.
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By Miami Herald and staff reports  Space adventures are all the rage. Some  like the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Launch Experience and Mission: Space at Epcot  are priced for the mortals among us; others cost the moon and stars.  Space Camp, Huntsville, Ala.  The U.S.
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Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. and Boeing Co., the world's largest aerospace company, said Tuesday they will bid as a team to compete for NASA's planned manned and robotic space exploration program.
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Sir Richard Branson announces that he has signed an agreement to develop the world&#39;s first privately funded space travel. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA.
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Astronaut hopefuls with the right stuff have a fresh chance to reach for the International Space Station and, ultimately, the moon, thanks to a new NASA hunt for qualified spaceflyers.
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By JOHN ANTCZAK    MOJAVE, Calif.  -- A test pilot in a stubby rocket plane will try to climb more than 60 miles over the Mojave Desert and punch through the atmosphere Wednesday in the first stage of a quest to win a $10 million prize meant to encourage space tourism...
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - A privately built rocket plane  will try to blast out of the atmosphere over the Mojave Desert  on Monday for the second time in less than a week to win a $10  million prize for the first commercially viable manned  spacecraft.
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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 &#151; in the sky and on the ground &#151; that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off.
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The race to collect the Ansari X Prize has all the makings of a good television reality show. But the competition to win the $10 million prize is also drumming up renewed interest in space flight at a time
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On October 4, 2004, SpaceShipOne rocketed into history, becoming the first private manned spacecraft to exceed an altitude of 328,000 feet twice within the span of a 14 day period, thus claiming the ten million dollar Ansari X-Prize.
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THE WINNER: Lockheed Martin Corp. beat out a competing team made up of Northrop Grumman Corp. and Boeing Co. for a contract to design and build the next-generation crew exploration vehicle, Orion, which NASA hopes returns astronauts to the moon by 2020, and later to Mars.
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The competition between the country&#39;s two satellite radio companies began as a race to the stars, with each fighting to be the first to launch satellites into space.
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WASHINGTON &mdash; NASA has narrowed the field of private space companies vying for $175 million in public funds the U.S. space agency expects to award in early February for demonstration flights to the International Space Station, according to industry sources closely following the competition.
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Rocket plane SpaceShipOne is attempting a second space flight in a bid to clinch the $10 million Ansari X-Prize. Judges officially confirmed that pilot Mike Melvill took the craft to 64 miles on Wednesday&#39;s first flight.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - A privately built rocket plane  and its mother ship lifted off into clear skies above the  Mojave Desert on Monday in a bid to win a $10 million prize for  the first commercially viable manned spacecraft.