SpaceShipOne: A giant leap for high-tech vets?
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update MOJAVE, Calif.--A venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen got a jump Wednesday on rivals eyeing a $10 million prize for the first privately funded junkets into space and back.
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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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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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The dream of opening space to the general public was given a tremendous boost in 2004 with SpaceShipOne's prize-winning suborbital jaunt and congressional legislation to help establish a space travel industry in the United States. But even the biggest champions of commercial spaceflight acknowledge that a vital space tourism market is still years from becoming reality.
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When the first space vacations are available, Richard Branson will be there selling them. On Sept. 27, Branson&#39;s Virgin announced a partnership with Paul Allen&#39;s Mojave Aerospace Ventures and SpaceShipOne
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No sooner had SpaceShipOne glided back to terra firma, claiming both the $10 million Ansari X Prize and distinction as the first privately funded manned spaceflight, than talk turned to a glorious future: personal space trips .
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Description: We consider what might be ahead for the future of private space travel. Will the SpaceShipOne flight kick off a new era of space development?
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Despite a spectacular series of unplanned barrel rolls, SpaceShipOne completes the first of two compulsory flights that could net its developers the $10 million Ansari X Prize. Dan Brekke reports from Mojave, California.
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After an unprecedented span of just five days, SpaceShipOne is ready for a return trip to space on Monday, its final flight to clinch a $10 million prize.
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Sir Richard Branson has kick-started a new space race, with plans to start tourist trips to the edge of the atmosphere. But are we ready for holidays at the final frontier?
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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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Regardless, space competitions are poised to become big business.
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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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MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA -- While SpaceShipOneâs wispy contrail from sky to space quickly vanished into the thin desert air here, Mondayâs flight at Mojave Spaceport left a solid line in the sand -- to create a &quot;new space age&quot; of personal space travel.
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SpaceShipOne has completed its second suborbital flight in five days, securing the $10 million Ansari X Prize. SpaceShipOne is the first privately built, manned vehicle to reach 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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After flying successfully three times in space, SpaceShipOne is in demand as an alternative way to fly people and small payloads to suborbital space.