'Space hotel' test craft launched
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An inflatable spacecraft designed as part of a project to put a hotel in space has successfully entered Earth's orbit.
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The world&#39;s first private spaceship has blasted into the final frontier for the second time in five days, snatching the nearly 14-million dollar prize and founding a new era of space tourism.
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The first test launch of a new rocket carrier, the Soyuz-2 (Rus), was carried out successfully today from the Plesetsk cosmodrome [in Arkhangelsk Region] at 2130 [Moscow time, 1830 gmt].
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SpaceShipOne, the first privately built, manned vehicle to reach space, roared to space and back again this morning from a launch site in California's Mojave desert.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery launched Saturday on a mission to rewire the international space station.
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Russian controllers fired the International Space Station's thrusters Monday, successfully testing navigation computers that malfunctioned last week.  The six Russian computers provide backup attitude control and orbital altitude adjustments for the station.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Dec. 10--CAPE CANAVERAL -- Illuminated by 40 pure-white Xenon spotlights and the golden glare of five powerful rocket engines, shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts thundered from the launch pad and into space Saturday night.
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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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MOJAVE, Calif. A test pilot yesterday made a successful foray into space marked by a white-knuckle ascent in which his rocket ship rolled at least 16 times in 16 seconds.
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Entrepreneur Richard Branson on  Wednesday unveiled a model of the spaceship he hopes will be  the first to take paying passengers into space on a regular  basis next year.
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The creator of the first privately financed craft to carry a human into space showed models of a new, bigger version.
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A prototype satellite  repair robot that can refuel, upgrade and repair satellites was  launched from Florida on Thursday night to begin a three-month  orbital field test.
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PASADENA, Calif. There could be something new under the sun next year -- the first controlled flight by a spaceship designed to run off solar wind.
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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.
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A private space plane is set to  shoot beyond Earth'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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A small, air-breathing test plane will attempt to blaze into history on Monday by flying at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. The hypersonic craft is one of three built by NASA for its $230-million Hyper-X project, established in 1996.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery launched Saturday on a mission to rewire the international space station.