Creators of private spaceship announce plans for second launch ...
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The creators of a private rocket plane will go ahead with plans for another launch next week in a quest to claim a multimillion-dollar prize, despite a harrowing flight in which the spacecraft rolled dramatically while hurtling toward
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MOJAVE, Calif. - A stubby private rocket plane blasted through the Earth's atmosphere for a second time in a week on Monday, capturing a $10 million prize meant to encourage space 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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A private space plane is set to shoot beyond Earth&#39;s atmosphere for the second time in a week on Monday in a pioneering bid to win a $10 million prize and prove that space is open for business.
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Los Angeles The creators of SpaceShipOne are going for the ten (m) million-dollar prize. Despite an unexpected roll during its flight on Wednesday, designer Burt Rutan (ruh-TAN&#39;) has given notice that he will
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A private manned rocket soared into space for a second time yesterday, landing successfully after an unexpectedly bumpy ride that nearly meant an early end to the team&#39;s bid to win a $10 million prize.
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SpaceShipOne, the world first privately developed spacecraft that first entered the space in October, has been named &#39;2004 Invention of the Year&#39; by Time magazine as a part of its annual &#39;Coolest Invention&#39; issue.
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The designer of the SpaceShipOne vessel, which cracked the barrier to manned commercial space flight earlier this year, signs a deal with Virgin Airways' Richard Branson to build more spacecraft based on that design.
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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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The privately-funded craft SpaceShipOne has completed a flight into space after an airborne launch above the California desert. The flight will bring the spaceship crew the $10 million X Prize.
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NEW YORK - Future thrill-seekers will ride a sleek spacecraft berthed under a massive, twin-boom mothership to the fringe of space in a design unveiled Wednesday by Virgin Galactic.
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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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Monday&#39;s triumphant second flight of SpaceShipOne is a perfect example of private business taking up where government left off and improving an idea.
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Creators of SpaceShipOne, the rocket plane that completed two manned space flights from a Southern California airport in a competition meant to promote private space travel, will get the $10
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The craft wins the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private space travel when it reaches 100km for the second time.
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SpaceShipOne hopes to go two for two. The spacecraft is scheduled for launch early tomorrow from California. At stake is a tenmillion-dollar prize being offered for the first privately developed manned rocket to reach space twice within 14 days.
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SpaceShipOne, the world&#39;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.