Houston, we have a winner: Allen&#39;s group claims X Prize
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MOJAVE, Calif. - A $20 million, private investment in manned space flight earned a $10 million return yesterday when a stubby, white rocket captured the X Prize by soaring to the edge of space for the second time in less than a week.
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What The Associated Press described as test pilot Michael Melvill&#39;s &quot;corkscrewing, white-knuckle ride&quot; on the first leg of SpaceShipOne&#39;s successful attempt to win the $10 million X-Prize, was actually a remarkable rendition of what generations of
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SpaceShipOne, the world's first privately built manned spacecraft, completed its third round-trip journey to space today, laying claim to the ten-million-dollar (U.S.) Ansari X Prize.
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The rocket plane SpaceShipOne, built by aviation pioneer Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft Corp. co- founder Paul Allen, won the $10 million competition aimed at creating a space tourism
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The X Prize and Next Fest team up to offer the biggest X Prize ever, winner to be announced on September 13 in Los Angeles.
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WHAT&#39;s the prize beneath the cap of that soft drink bottle? A trip into space. It may sound far-fetched - if not a little crass â-ut the commercialisation of the final frontier began in earnest yesterday
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After an unplanned &quot;victory roll&quot; as SpaceShipOne climbed to more than 63 miles above Earth, civilian astronaut Mike Melvill glided the rocket plane to a safe landing Wednesday, putting his team in the lead to capture the $10 million Ansari X Prize
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ST. LOUIS It&#39;s a big day for a big check in St. Louis where Burt Rutan&#39;s Mojave Aerospace Ventures will get a 10 (m) million-dollar check as winners of the Ansari X Prize.
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The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge -- in which DIY engineers try and fly their homemade rockets from one concrete pad to another, 100 meters away -- is the main event at X Prize Cup 2007. Wired's on-site to give you the latest as participants vie for the $2 million prize.
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Innovators take note: The folks behind the X Prize vow there will soon be more competitions in several disciplines. Also: The da Vinci team presses ahead in Canada.... Rubicon team plans another launch attempt. By Dan Brekke.
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CALGARY - Calgary&#39;s already sizzling business community has scooped its biggest prize yet with the move from Toronto of Imperial Oil Ltd.
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No sooner had SpaceShipOne glided back to terra firma, claiming both the $10 million Ansari X Prize and distinction as the first privately funded manned spaceflight, than talk turned to a glorious future: personal space trips .
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Following its successful test flight in June, the American Mojave Aerospace team, led by Burt Rutan and backed by Paul Allen, plans to launch its first official flight in pursuit of the $10 million Ansari X Prize on Wednesday.
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The first private manned rocket to reach space soared toward the edge of the atmosphere on Wednesday in a bid to earn the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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The most important news story of this fall, ultimately more important than the re-election of the president, was the awarding of the X Prize to Burt Rutan for his SpaceShipOne flights.
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The European space agency is celebrating the successful launch of its probe to Saturn&#39;s largest moon, Titan. The Huygens probe was launched from the NASA spacecraft Cassini which was orbiting Saturn and is due to reach Titan in mid-January.
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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.