SpaceShipOne Wins the X Prize
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MOJAVE, California -- SpaceShipOne made history Monday and triumphed in the international Ansari X Prize race to launch the first privately built spacecraft.
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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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USA Today -- More than eight years ago, a new space race began with the announcement of the X Prize Competition. Based on prizes that inspired the development of aviation in the early 20th century, the X Prize was started to encourage private space travel through a competition to build the first reusable spacecraft...
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MOJAVE (California) - SpaceShipOne, a privately built three-seat rocket plane, punched into space yesterday, moving a step closer to a US$10 million (S$17 million) civilian space prize.
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The private rocket ship SpaceShipOne traveled into space and back today for the second time in five days, and was declared the winner of a $10 million prize.
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Despite a few tense moments, the SpaceShipOne rocket plane made a successful manned flight into space, putting it in the lead in the race to win the $10-million Ansari X Prize.
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SpaceShipOne completed the first leg of its bid for a &#36;10-million civilian space prize with a wild corkscrew-like ascent into space above the California desert on Wednesday.
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The privately-funded craft SpaceShipOne has completed a flight into space after an airborne launch above the California desert. The flight will bring the spaceship crew the $10 million X Prize.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - SpaceShipOne completed the first  leg of its bid for a $10-million civilian space prize with a  wild corkscrew-like ascent into space above the California  desert on Wednesday.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - SpaceShipOne, the world'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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Brian Binnie (top left in image), grabbed previous Pilot&#39;s Mike Melvill&#39;s torch and flew the second leg of the X Prize competition in Burt Rutan&#39;s SpaceShipOne.
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The successful X-Prize mission of Burt Rutan&#39;s SpaceShipOne last week was a major success for the commercial space industry. But although that success has led to the creation of space
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SpaceShipOne, which is solely funded by Paul G. Allen, was designed by aviation legend Burt Rutan and built by his company, Scaled Composites.
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Rocket plane SpaceShipOne is to attempt a second space flight on Monday in a bid to clinch the $10m Ansari X-Prize. Judges officially confirmed that pilot Mike Melvill took the craft to 103km (64 miles) on Wednesday&#39;s first flight.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - SpaceShipOne landed safely on  Wednesday in the California desert after a wild corkscrew-like  ascent into space, and is now a step closer to a $10 million  prize intended to boost commercial-space travel.
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SpaceShipOne on Monday captured the $10 million Ansari X prize when it made a second flight in less than a week to the edge of space.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Burt Rutan, an aviator whose SpaceShipOne won the $10 million Ansari X-Prize for making three suborbital space flights, said NASA (news - web sites) needs another Wernher von Braun - and