Private spaceship leaves Earth&#39;s atmosphere
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MOJAVE, Calif. - He was told to abort the bumpy flight, but the pilot of a spiraling space rocket stayed at it, and successfully flew into space and back.
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Richard Branson is abandoning cyberspace as he heads for outer 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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The private rocket ship SpaceShipOne traveled into space and back today for the second time in five days, and was declared the winner of a $10 million prize.
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Traveling in space has been a desire for many since ages. Nevertheless, it only seems to be coming true in this millennium. Even though we are still years away from mass scale space tourism, the enthusiasm
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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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MOJAVE, CALIF. -- A stubby private rocket plane blasted through Earth&#39;s atmosphere for a second time in a week yesterday, capturing a $10-million US prize meant to encourage space tourism.
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MOJAVE, CALIF. - A privately built and operated spacecraft roared out of the atmosphere on Wednesday with a historic flight that brings the team one step closer to winning a $10-million US prize.
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MARK COLVIN: Space travel is a childhood dream, but today it got a little closer to adult reality, for the wealthy, at any rate. The prototype private space vessel &quot;SpaceShipOne&quot; made a mostly successful manned test flight over the American Mojave Desert.
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Space is the one frontier that&#39;s out of reach to the average person, but the feeling of space travel is now a little less elusive.
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The private sector joins the space community with a successful sub-orbital flight above the Mojave Desert.
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An inflatable spacecraft designed as part of a project to put a hotel in space has successfully entered Earth's orbit.
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MOJAVE -- Burt Rutan&#39;s space ship one made its first trip into sub-orbital outer space in pursuit of the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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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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The advent of space tourism is one step closer with the safe return this week of a private manned rocketship from âthe edge of spaceâ.
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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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pioneering bid to win a $10 million (5.6 million pounds) prize and prove that space is open for business. space travel as ordinary as a Caribbean cruise.