SpaceShipOne Bid Seen Opening Space for Business
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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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POWAY, Calif. -- The man whose firm built the engine expected to power SpaceShipOne into suborbital space today plans to build his own craft and compete with his more celebrated partners, Paul Allen and Burt Rutan, for the extraterrestrial turf.
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Oct. 4 - A group of private citizens in California are hoping to make another giant leap for mankind. SpaceShipOne has already made it to space and back.
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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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MOJAVE, Calif. - The private manned rocket SpaceShipOne (search) streaked toward space early Monday in a bid to top an altitude of 62 miles for the second time in six days and claim the $10 million Ansari X Prize (search).
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has signed a deal with a company owned by British entrepreneur Richard Branson to develop space tourism.
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LOS ANGELES A private spaceship is to blast off for the second time in a week on Monday in the final stage of an attempt to win a $10 million prize.
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LOS ANGELES -- The historic suborbital flights of SpaceShipOne have ignited interest in space tourism, but the budding industry and federal regulators must still resolve questions ranging from ensuring the safety of people on the ground to informing
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A team of entrepreneurs will try to blast a rocket plane into space Wednesday in the first of two flights required to win the Ansari X Prize, a $10 million award aiming to boost commercial space travel.
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So far, one entrant, SpaceShipOne of California, seems likely to win the prize for a successful manned spacecraft launch. But three other teams say they're still in the running. By Dan Brekke.
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SpaceShipOne&#39;s successful flights did more than win $10 million - they proved to the world that space is open for all humanity.
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A maverick California company is poised to launch a bid today to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize, a global competition expected to spur a &quot;personal spaceflight revolution.
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The age of commercial space flight officially begins Monday as SpaceShipOne completes its second successful flight into space to capture the Ansari X Prize. It's $10 million to the developers, who look forward to a bright future ahead. Dan Brekke reports from Mojave, California.
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The race for the $10m Ansari X-Prize begins in earnest on Wednesday as SpaceShipOne prepares to rocket to more than 100km above the Earth.
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A Las Vegas hotel magnate who is  hoping to build the world's first commercial space stations  offered $50 million on Monday to the creators of the first  privately funded spaceship to reach orbit.
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Two business moguls announce plans to capitalize on the current hubbub over private spaceflight. Also: Speculation increases on whether SpaceShipOne will carry passengers on its second prize-attempt flight.... and more. By Dan Brekke.
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An âout-of-the-boxâ plan to put a new space habitat in orbit could be a leading contender for saving the Hubble Space Telescope, private-sector analysts say in a proposal being prepared for NASA.