SpaceShipOne rockets to Â£5.6m prize
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IN THE annals of aviation, it will undoubtedly rank alongside such momentous events as the Wright brothersâ first powered flight in 1903 and Charles Lindberghâs transatlantic crossing in 1927.
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The owners of SpaceShipOne are just one flight away from claiming a $10 million prize for putting a privately funded manned craft into space.
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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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A team of aviation pioneers with dreams of one day offering tourist trips into space will tomorrow attempt to clinch a Â£5.5 million prize by launching a craft beyond the
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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.
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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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SpaceShipOne, the privately built manned rocket aiming to claim the 10 million USD X-Prize, has completed the first of two qualifying flights, and is scheduled to attempt the winning second flight on 4 October, despite some technical concerns.
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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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MOJAVE, Calif.  - SpaceShipOne landed safely on  Wednesday in the California desert after a wild corkscrew-like  ascent into space in a shot for a $10 million prize offered to  the first privately funded, manned craft to reach beyond the  atmosphere.
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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 three-person spacecraft flew higher than 62 miles for the second time in a week and captured the X-Prize, an award offered to promote private-sector development of spaceships.
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MOJAVE, Calif. The SpaceShipOne aircraft is one flight away from clinching the Ansari X Prize, a 10-(m)million-dollar award for the first privately developed manned rocket to reach space twice within 14 days.
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The successful X-Prize mission of Burt Rutan&#39;s SpaceShipOne last week was a major success for the commercial space industry. But although that success has led to the creation of space
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SpaceShipOne completed the first leg of its bid for a $10-million civilian space prize above the Mojave California desert on Wednesday.
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Led by Burt Rutan, the designers of SpaceShipOne -- the first privately manned rocket to enter outer space -- received a 150-pound trophy along with a check for $10 million Saturday.
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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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Designer Burt Rutan&#39;s SpaceShipOne cracked through Earth&#39;s atmosphere and into outer space Sept. 29. Pilot Mike Mevill guided the aircraft to an altitude of 102,870 meters.