Private plane set for Space mission
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pioneering bid to win a $10 million (5.6 million pounds) prize and prove that space is open for business. space travel as ordinary as a Caribbean cruise.
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A star-spangled rocket plane returned to space yesterday, enabling a team of entrepreneurs to collect a $10 million prize for developing the first reusable private spacecraft.
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SpaceShipOne, the world&#39;s first privately developed spaceship, is fueled and ready to embark this morning on a flight into space in a bid to claim the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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SpaceShipOne pioneer Burt Rutan gives a glimpse of what fare-paying passengers can expect when they take their ride into space.
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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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Richard Branson, Britain&#39;s best-known entrepreneur and part-time daredevil, plans to launch the world&#39;s first passenger service to space in 2007, offering zero-gravity flights for 110,000 pounds ($198,600).
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British billionaire Richard Branson announced Monday that his company Virgin Atlantic airline will launch the world&#39;s first commercial space flight in near future.
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In a piece of aerial razzle-dazzle worthy of a James Bond movie, a NASA spacecraft is scheduled to drop a capsule into Earth&#39;s atmosphere Wednesday, and a helicopter waiting in the skies over
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Virgin Galactic shows off the final design of the launch system that will take fare-paying passengers into space.
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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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Also: Congress OKs private spaceflight bill. [News.com Extra]
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The U.S. team that took the first privately funded, manned ship into space makes a bid to capture a &#36;10 million prize this week -- signaling that commercial space travel has nearly arrived.
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When a privately built rocket plane soared into space earlier this month, astronaut wannabes were giddy with the hope that they&#39;d finally make it off the planet.
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Sir Richard Branson, airline mogul and adventurer, announced plans yesterday to boldly go where no private transport company has gone before -- into space.
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A private rocket ship shot into space on Monday morning and won a coveted $10 million aviation prize for its creators. SpaceShipOne, the sleek combination of rocket and glider designed by
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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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In a piece of aerial razzle-dazzle worthy of a James Bond movie, a NASA spacecraft is scheduled to drop a capsule into Earth's atmosphere Wednesday, and a helicopter waiting in the skies over Utah will try to pluck it in midair and bring home its precious cargo -- a few micrograms of the stuff that makes up the sun.