Carmack's X-Prize rocket explodes on pad
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Aspirations doomed for another year The sole remaining contender to win a prize for privately-built rocket lander systems exploded yesterday, ending hopes that the prize might be won this year.â¦
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A team taking a low-budget stab at the &#36;10 million Ansari X Prize for private manned spaceflight suffered a setback Sunday, when their rocket malfunctioned and exploded after shooting less than 1,000 feet in the air.
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A loud explosion in the Afghan capital, Kabul on the eve of the country&#39;s presidential elections, was caused by a rocket attack, officials said.
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A Russian Soyuz rocket is due to blast off from the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan early Thursday. Astronaut Leroy Chiao and cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipovalso will observe conditions on
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DARMSTADT, Germany: Europe's first spacecraft to the moon ended its three-year mission yesterday with a planned crash on the lunar surface, hitting its target at 2 kilometres per second, or 7,200 kilometres per hour.
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A computer simulation shows fast-moving fireball amplifies the damage done by a smaller asteroid impact, Sandia National Laboratories researchers conclude.
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Rocket geeks are flocking to the X Prize Cup "rocket festival" this weekend in New Mexico. On show are rockets, robots and planes, as well as a flying lunar lander, courtesy of game designer John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace.
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The largest explosion ever seen in space reveals black holes to be more influential    than expected, perhaps sometimes stifling star formation in a galaxy while    gobbling up trillions upon trillions of tons of gas.
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For the first time astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole blasting its galactic neighbor with a deadly beam of energy.
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By FERGUS SHEPPARD  EUROPE'S first lunar mission ended its three years in space yesterday with a controlled and spectacular crash on the Moon, slamming into the planet's surface at 4,500mph and creating a flash visible to astronomers on Earth.
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A Sea Launch Co. rocket carrying a commercial communications satellite exploded Tuesday during launch from an oceangoing platform in the equatorial Pacific.
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The three-person spacecraft flew higher than 62 miles for the second time in a week and captured the X-Prize, an award offered to promote private-sector development of spaceships.
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This is the moment that the painstaking research from a three-year, $250m (Â£140m) mission in space crashed headlong to Earth. The cargo - weighing only as much as a few
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TORONTO - One of two Canadian teams competing for a $10-million US-prize has delayed the launch of its rocket. The rocket launch was set to take place in Kindersley, Sask.
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By DAVID McHUGH DARMSTADT, Germany - Europe's first spacecraft to the moon smashed into a volcanic plain as planned Sunday, signaling in a bright flash the end of a successful mission to test a new propulsion system and navigation technology for flights to other planets.
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A private space rocket launched from New Mexico malfunctions before it reaches space.
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Google is putting up the bounty for the latest X Prize. Just put a robot on the moon, and it's yours. How did this come about, and what will it take to win it.