KU grad&#39;s team nears $10 million rocket prize
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Mojave, Calif. - A team of pilots and aerospace engineers on Wednesday took the first step toward a $10 million prize by sending its rocket plane 64 miles above the Mojave Desert.
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Julian Wright and Mario Chalmers each scored 18 points, and No. 3 Kansas bounced back after blowing a 17-point lead to beat Oklahoma 67-65 Monday night. The Jayhawks (26-4, 13-2 Big 12) committed 12 second-half turnovers against Oklahoma's pressing defense, but rebounded with a late 11-4 run to win their seventh straight game.
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MOJAVE, California -- A Southern California aerospace team took a big step toward capturing the $10 million Ansari X Prize Wednesday, but not without surviving a scary moment when the pilot found himself in a rapid spin as he roared across the threshold
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By GARY PERILLOUX  Boeing is lobbying Louisiana officials this week in a bid to win a multibillion-dollar rocket assembly project at NASA's Michoud facility in east New Orleans.
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Kansas (6-0) is off to its best start since 1995, and junior Aqib Talib is helping the Jayhawks on both offense and defense.
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The play of the night could turn out to be the play of the year for No. 2 Kansas - no matter how far the Jayhawks go this season. Even after Wayne Simien&#39;s 20 points led five players in
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It&#39;s hard to imagine, but the league that gave us college basketball&#39;s last two national champions is about to get a lot better.
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Kansas has been pleasantly surprised by Brandon Rush, who attended four high schools and battled issues of academic eligibility before playing for the Jayhawks.
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MOJAVE, Calif. - Ignoring a warning to abort the flight, a test pilot took a stubby-looking rocket plane on a corkscrewing, white-knuckle ride past the edge of the atmosphere Wednesday, completing the first stage of a quest to win a $10 million prize...
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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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Michael Beasley scored 21 points and Bill Walker added 19 for Kansas State, which broke a close game open in the second half and went on to beat No. 10 Texas A&M 75-54 on Saturday. The win gave the Wildcats (12-4, 2-0 Big 12) their first 2-0 start to a conference season in 15 years.
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Kenan Cole manages a mechanical engineering major and a starting role on a women's basketball team ranked among the nation's top 10
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Brandon Rush, who led Kansas in scoring last year, has withdrawn from the NBA draft and will play his junior season at the school. A two-time all-conference selection, the 6-foot-6 Rush averaged a team-high 13.8 points for the Big 12 champions.
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Kansas sure grew up in a hurry. Just 10 days after losing to Oral Roberts &#151; and 24 hours after struggling to beat Ball State &#151; the youthful Jayhawks had the poise and precision to knock off the defending national champions.
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SpaceShipOne, the Paul Allen-backed venture that&#39;s attempting to take paying passengers into suborbital space for the first time, has completed the first leg of its effort to win a $10 million prize.
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By JOHN ANTCZAK     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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Mario Chalmers hit three key 3-pointers and scored 13 points, and No. 10 Kansas overcame awful first-half shooting in a 64-46 victory over Ball State in the Las Vegas Invitational on Friday night.