US private space rocket crashes
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A private space rocket launched from New Mexico malfunctions before it reaches space.
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A rocket that was the first launched from a commercial spaceport in New Mexico &#151; and the first to crash &#151; has been found in the desert, company officials said Saturday.
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WASHINGTON - An important test of the United States&#39; emerging missile-defense system ended in an $85 million failure early Wednesday as an interceptor rocket failed to launch as scheduled from the Marshall Islands, the Pentagon said.
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Problems with switches aboard NASA (news - web sites)&#39;s Genesis solar probe may have kept its parachute from opening, which led to the craft&#39;s crash-landing in the Utah desert, the US space agency said.
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - Scientists with tweezers picked through the twisted wreckage of a space capsule that crash-landed on Earth, hoping that microscopic clues to the evolution of the solar system weren't completely lost in Utah's salt flats.    NASA engineers were stunned Wednesday when neither parachute deployed aboard the Genesis capsule and the craft plummeted to the ground at 193 mph, breaking open like a clamshell and exposing its collection of solar atoms to contamination...
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On October 4, 2004, SpaceShipOne rocketed into history, becoming the first private manned spacecraft to exceed an altitude of 328,000 feet twice within the span of a 14 day period, thus claiming the ten million dollar Ansari X-Prize.
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(CBS/AP) The first private manned rocket to reach space soared toward the edge of the atmosphere again in an unexpectedly bumpy ride Wednesday in the first half of a bid to earn a $10 million prize.
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Get fun facts on SpaceShipOne, the first privately built manned spacecraft. For starters, the ship burns a mixture of rubber and laughing gas.
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A star-spangled rocket plane returned to space yesterday, enabling a team of entrepreneurs to collect a $10 million prize for developing the first reusable private spacecraft.
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The head of the US space agency, NASA, says private enterprise will play an important role in space in the future. While visiting California, NASA administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe watched the launch of the privately
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MOJAVE, Calif. - A stubby private rocket plane blasted through the Earth's atmosphere for a second time in a week on Monday, capturing a $10 million prize meant to encourage space tourism...
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico  - A commercial   rocket blasted off from a site in New Mexico on Monday, but   malfunctioned before it reached space, organizers said.
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A rocket carrying an Israeli spy satellite crashed shortly after liftoff on Monday, officials said.
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The first private manned rocket to reach space soared toward the edge of the atmosphere again in an unexpectedly bumpy ride Wednesday in the first half of a bid to earn a 10 million (8.
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One of the most innovative missions in space exploration has come to a dramatic close as Europe's first probe to the Moon crashed into the lunar surface giving stargazers around the world an astronomical fireworks display.
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MOJAVE, Calif. - The first private manned rocket recovered from a wild corkscrew roll on its ascent to soar to space and back Wednesday in a bid to earn a $10 million prize...
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Vibrations in NASAâs new rocket may cause severe, perhaps fatal, injuries.