NASA to Attempt Mach 10 Flight
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NASA will attempt to break the aircraft speed record next week by flying a jet plane at 7,000 mph, or nearly 10 times the speed of sound, say planners for the agency&#39;s experimental X-43A project.
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The United States  begins its next step in human space flight with the  announcement by NASA on Thursday of a contractor to design and  build spaceships to fly to the moon.
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NASA on Tuesday successfully conducted the final and fastest test flight of an unmanned experimental jet, at a record nearly 10 times the speed of sound, or 11,260 km per hour, it is reported.
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A private space plane is set to shoot beyond Earth&#39;s atmosphere for the second time in a week on Monday in a pioneering bid to win a $10 million prize and prove that space is open for business.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - A privately built rocket plane  will try to blast out of the atmosphere over the Mojave Desert  on Monday for the second time in less than a week to win a $10  million prize for the first commercially viable manned  spacecraft.
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A maverick California company is poised to launch a bid today to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize, a global competition expected to spur a &quot;personal spaceflight revolution.
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LOS ANGELES - A private spacecraft is to shoot beyond Earth&#39;s atmosphere for the second time in a week today in a bid to win a US$10 million ($15 million) prize and prove that space is open for business.
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NASA plans to break the aircraft speed record for the second time in 7 1/2 months next week, by flying its X43a scramjet 110,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean at speeds close to Mach 10.
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NASA&#39;s X-43A scramjet will on Monday undergo its third test flight during which scientists will attempt to push the vehicle to Mach 10.
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Nasa has announced plans to launch the first manned space mission since the 2003 Columbia disaster. The next shuttle flight is to take place in May 2005 following a series of delays because of damage caused by hurricanes.
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NASA is hoping to break new speed records later today when it will set loose its third X-43A &quot;scramjet&#39;&#39; over the Pacific Ocean.
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A privately built rocket plane will try to blast out of the atmosphere over the Mojave Desert on Monday for the second time in less than a week to win a $10 million prize for the first commercially viable manned spacecraft.
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NASA will make a second attempt today to set an aviation speed record after an instrumentation problem forced the agency to scrap a planned flight test Monday.
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A team of entrepreneurs will try to blast a rocket plane into space Wednesday in the first of two flights required to win the Ansari X Prize, a $10 million award aiming to boost commercial space travel.
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NASA has been working on a test flight project for the last few years involving hypersonic flight. Hypersonic flight is fight at speeds greater than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound.
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An &quot;air-breathing&quot; test plane will attempt to break a world speed record for the second time in a year by flying at nearly 10 times the speed of sound.
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NASA plans to try to set a world speed record for jets with the flight of a pilotless vehicle that culminates a decades-long research program into hypersonic flight.