SpaceShipOne crew confident
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The pilot and designer of a private rocket plane say they are confident it could return next week to the sky in a quest to claim a multimillion-dollar prize, despite a harrowing flight
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The astronauts who will make NASA's first shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster said Friday they are confident it will be a safe voyage, and while they won't be able to fix a hole the size of the one that doomed Columbia, they will have options the last crew did not.
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SpaceShipOne&#39;s successful flights did more than win $10 million - they proved to the world that space is open for all humanity.
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NASA's space station manager said today that he's confident the computer problems that have plagued the International Space Station this week will be resolved.
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STAR CITY, Russia - The newly returned crew of the international space station said Tuesday they had accomplished all the necessary tasks in their six months on the orbiting station, even with a risky, unplanned space walk to replace a bad circuit breaker
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The US-Russian space crew due to blast off Thursday say they expect six &quot;pleasant&quot; months in orbit, despite a technical glitch that has twice delayed the launch.
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Shuttle officials said there were no major technical issues facing the Atlantis and its six-member crew.
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Several St. Louis business people were on hand Wednesday to witness SpaceShipOne&#39;s first attempt in its effort to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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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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One short flight for man, or the start of a long voyage for rich men. That&#39;s one way of looking at Monday&#39;s historic jaunt of the revolutionary spacecraft SpaceShipOne, which crossed the brink of space for the second time in six days.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The six crew members of space shuttle Atlantis strapped into the spacecraft and ran through a practice countdown Friday in preparation for the program's first launch of the year next month. "It went seamlessly," NASA spokesman Bill Johnson said.
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SpaceShipOne, the world's first privately built manned spacecraft, completed its third round-trip journey to space today, laying claim to the ten-million-dollar (U.S.) Ansari X Prize.
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ST. LOUIS -- It&#39;s a big day for a big check in St. Louis where the team behind a rocket plane called SpaceShipOne has accepted a $10 million prize for advancements in private space travel and tourism.
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POWAY, Calif. -- The man whose firm built the engine expected to power SpaceShipOne into suborbital space today plans to build his own craft and compete with his more celebrated partners, Paul Allen and Burt Rutan, for the extraterrestrial turf.
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International Space Station crewmembers this week continued research and maintenance activities and prepared for arrival of the next Progress cargo craft.
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ONLY two days after returning from a six-month space expedition, US astronaut Michael Fincke said that he was ready to return to orbit with his Russian colleagues.
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Members of the Mojave Aerospace Ventures team: (from left) Peter Diamandis, Paul Allen, Burt Rutan, pilot Brian Binnie and Richard Branson celebrate with champagne after SpaceShipOne&#39;s second suborbital flight in early October.