Private Spaceship Designers Given $10M
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Burt Rutan, Scaled Composite&#39;s team leader, waves while being introduced in St. Louis, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004. Rutan designed SpaceShipOne, the rocket plane financed by billionaire Paul Allen that won the
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The group that awarded US$10 million this week to the winner of an outer-space travel contest is gearing up to offer cash prizes for technology breakthroughs in medicine, computer science, transportation and a number of other arenas.
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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 X Prize Foundation, famous for its 2004 Ansari award aimed at encouraging private space travel, offered 10 million dollars to the team of researchers able to develop technology that can map 100 human genomes in 10 days.
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So Burt Rutan&#39;s SpaceShipOne has grabbed the $10 million Ansari X Prize. What&#39;s next for Peter Diamandis and the organization he started in the mid-&#39;90s to promote development of private spaceships?
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The owners of SpaceShipOne are just one flight away from claiming a $10 million prize for putting a privately funded manned craft into space.
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By JOHN ANTCZAK     LONG BEACH, Calif.  -- It was billionaire Paul Allen's $20 million that allowed Burt Rutan to build SpaceShipOne, the first privately financed manned rocket to reach space...
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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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A beefed-up motor will boost the power of a rocket vying for the $10 million human space flight prize. SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded craft to carry a person to the edge of space in June.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - SpaceShipOne landed safely on  Wednesday in the California desert after a wild corkscrew-like  ascent into space in a shot for a $10 million prize offered to  the first privately funded, manned craft to reach beyond the  atmosphere.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - The world's first privately  funded manned spacecraft soared through the blue fringe of  Earth's atmosphere to the blackened frontiers of space on  Monday for the second time within a week to win a $10 million  prize designed to spur commercial space travel.
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Marking the end of a years-long quest, the team behind the SpaceShipOne rocket plane on Saturday accepted the $10 million Ansari X Prize for advancements in private space travel and tourism.
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Los Angeles The creators of SpaceShipOne are going for the ten (m) million-dollar prize. Despite an unexpected roll during its flight on Wednesday, designer Burt Rutan (ruh-TAN&#39;) has given notice that he will
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Monday&#39;s triumphant second flight of SpaceShipOne is a perfect example of private business taking up where government left off and improving an idea.
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SpaceShipOne will today attempt to reach an altitude of 100km for the second time in less than a fortnight, and thereby claim the $10m X-Prize for the first private space vehicle to accomplish the feat.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - A privately built rocket plane  blasted straight up through blue skies above the Mojave desert  on Monday and reached its target altitude in a bid to win a $10  million prize for the first commercially viable manned  spacecraft, flight controllers said.
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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.