Man Gets 2nd Chance at Space Ride
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POWAY, Calif. - A man who gave up a free space ride because he couldn't afford the taxes on the contest prize may be going to the cosmos after all.
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The race to send privately owned rockets into space heated up yesterday with the second successful test of a craft built by aviation pioneer Burt Rutan.
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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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MOJAVE, Calif. - He was told to abort the bumpy flight, but the pilot of a spiraling space rocket stayed at it, and successfully flew into space and back.
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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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MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA - Human    flight took a significant step forward today as the privately built SpaceShipOne    flew into suborbital space for the second time in five days, apparently securing    the &#36;10 million Ansari X Prize.
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China&#39;s second manned space flight will be conducted by two astronauts over five days in 2005. &quot;Shenzhou-VI will be blasted into space sometime next year,&quot; said Zuo Saichun, a
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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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His first space flight was in 1965 when he piloted the first manned Gemini mission. Later he made two trips to the moon -- orbiting during a 1969 flight and then walking on the lunar surface during a mission in 1972.
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Pilot Mike Melvill flew SpaceShipOne to the designated altitude, but on the return to Earth the craft rolled more than 30 times, causing concern on the ground.
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LOS ANGELES : A private US spaceship is set to blast off for the second time in five days on Monday in the final stage of an attempt to clinch a US$10 million prize aimed at launching a new era of space tourism.
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SpaceShipOne is one flight away from clinching the Ansari X Prize, a &#36;10 million award for the first privately developed manned rocket to reach space twice within 14 days.
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A U.S. rocket entrepreneur on Thursday   joined the ranks attempting to get space tourism off the   ground.
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Rocket plane SpaceShipOne is attempting a second space flight in a bid to clinch the $10 million Ansari X-Prize. Judges officially confirmed that pilot Mike Melvill took the craft to 64 miles on Wednesday&#39;s first flight.
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By Mike Schneider THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA asked an astronaut aboard the International Space Station to exercise vigorously Friday, hoping the rapid movement would jostle a half-retracted solar wing that refuses to fold up properly.
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Aviation legend Burt Rutan won the $10 million Ansari X Prize on Monday with another flight to space for his SpaceShipOne, capping an eight-year quest in the St.
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Space is the one frontier that&#39;s out of reach to the average person, but the feeling of space travel is now a little less elusive.