Rocket plane lands safely after bid for X Prize
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Despite a few tense moments, the SpaceShipOne rocket plane made a successful manned flight into space, putting it in the lead in the race to win the $10-million Ansari X Prize.
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A Canadian team of rocketeers has moved one step closer to launching its own manned spacecraft with the successful parachute drop test of a crew capsule today.  &nbsp;  The backers of Canadian Arrow, a rocket entry in the &#36;10 million Ansari X Prize competition, watched happily as their crew compartment drifted down into Lake Ontario.  &nbsp;  Today totally proves our Canadian Arrow design, said Geoff Sheerin, leader of the London, Ontario-based Arrows bid for the X Prize. It went really well and everything worked as it should. ...
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In the quest for a cheaper route to space, astronauts competing for the X Prize are willing to take risks. But some wonder if blasting off in an untested rocket ship suspended from a giant balloon is taking things too far. By Dan Brekke.
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The shuttle Atlantis safely landed in Florida Wednesday, completing a successful mission to install Europe's first space laboratory.
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Marking the end of a years-long quest, the team behind the SpaceShipOne rocket plane on Saturday accepted the $10 million Ansari X Prize for advancements in private space travel and tourism.
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The first privately funded manned rocket to reach space completed the first half of a $10 million flight competition yesterday by soaring to an altitude of
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NASA managers said the craft showed no sign of damage, and they cleared it to land early Thursday.
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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 worldâs biggest jumbo jet landed safely in Sydney, ending its first commercial flight from Singapore.
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The engines of a jet that crash-landed at Heathrow Airport had no mechanical defects, investigators say.
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A Lufthansa passenger plane landed safely in Israel, escorted by Israeli warplanes tonight, hours after it had been diverted to Cyprus following a bomb threat, airport officials said.
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The team behind the SpaceShipOne rocket plane says it plans to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize on Monday, after deciding that the unexpected tumble encountered during this
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A stout, star-spangled rocket plane has broken through the Earth&#39;s atmosphere to the edge of space for the second time in five days, capturing a $US10 million ($A13.
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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.
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The first private manned rocket glided into space a second time and returned to Earth after recovering from a wild roll on its ascent on Wednesday in a bid to earn the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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A bomb-threatened Olympic Airways plane landed safely at Shannon airport today after being diverted to Ireland following a warning telephoned to an Athens newspaper.
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An Olympic Airlines passenger plane landed safely at Stansted Airport, about 50 km north of London, after a bomb threat forced it to abort its flight from Athens to JFK airport in New York.