SpaceShipOne on course for X Prize
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A Californian-based team is halfway to claiming a $10 million prize by putting a privately financed manned craft into sub-orbital space.
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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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LOS ANGELES  -- The world's first private manned spacecraft will make its second space flight in five days Monday in the final stage of its attempt to win a 10 million USD prize, organisers said.       SpaceShipOne is scheduled to take off at around 7:00 am (1400 GMT) and blast out of the earth's atmosphere just over an hour later in its quest for the Ansari X Prize purse, aimed at spurring a new era of commercial space travel...
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The successful X-Prize mission of Burt Rutan&#39;s SpaceShipOne last week was a major success for the commercial space industry. But although that success has led to the creation of space
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Hoping to build on the momentum sparked by SpaceShipOne's dash into space, supporters of opening the heavens to civilians are turning the winner-take-all race into an annual competition that might further fuel imaginations.
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MOJAVE, Calif. The builders of SpaceShipOne are trying to decide whether to proceed with another flight into space next week to win the 10 (m) million dollar X Prize.
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Michael Melvill, who earned commercial astronaut's wings by piloting SpaceShipOne's history-making flight earlier this year, was selected to fly the first X Prize flight Wednesday.
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SpaceShipOne is just one flight away from claiming the Ansari X-Prize, a $10m award designed to kick-start private space travel.
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LOS ANGELES : A private US spaceship is set to blast off for the second time in five days on Monday in the final stage of an attempt to clinch a US$10 million prize aimed at launching a new era of space tourism.
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MOJAVE, Calif. -- SpaceShipOne is one flight away from clinching the Ansari X Prize, a $10 million award for the first privately developed manned rocket to reach space twice within 14 days.
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MOJAVE, California -- SpaceShipOne made history Monday and triumphed in the international Ansari X Prize race to launch the first privately built spacecraft.
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Rocket plane SpaceShipOne is attempting a second space flight in a bid to clinch the $10 million Ansari X-Prize. Judges officially confirmed that pilot Mike Melvill took the craft to 64 miles on Wednesday&#39;s first flight.
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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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Regardless, space competitions are poised to become big business.
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The privately owned and operated SpaceShipOne spacecraft has won the $10 million Ansari X Prize by successfully making its second manned flight into space.
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SpaceShipOne completed the first leg of its bid for a &#36;10-million civilian space prize with a wild corkscrew-like ascent into space above the California desert on Wednesday.
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SpaceShipOne will lift off from its Mojave Desert airstrip in California about 7 am local time for flight to claim the $10 million Ansari X Prize.