SpaceShipOne Bid Seen Opening Space for Business
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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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A Las Vegas hotel magnate who is  hoping to build the world's first commercial space stations  offered $50 million on Monday to the creators of the first  privately funded spaceship to reach orbit.
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Entrepreneur Richard Branson on Wednesday unveiled a model of the spaceship he hopes will be the first to take paying passengers into space on a regular basis next year.
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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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Two business moguls announce plans to capitalize on the current hubbub over private spaceflight. Also: Speculation increases on whether SpaceShipOne will carry passengers on its second prize-attempt flight.... and more. By Dan Brekke.
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By Marla Matzer Rose, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 3--A Chicago space-tourism company that might locate operations in Columbus has signed a deal with NASA to help the agency develop space shuttle-type aircraft.   PlanetSpace Inc.
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Regardless, space competitions are poised to become big business.
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NASA has chosen two aerospace companies to develop a commercial spaceship capable of flying cargo to the International Space Station.
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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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An âout-of-the-boxâ plan to put a new space habitat in orbit could be a leading contender for saving the Hubble Space Telescope, private-sector analysts say in a proposal being prepared for NASA.
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Entrepreneur Richard Branson on  Wednesday unveiled a model of the spaceship he hopes will be  the first to take paying passengers into space on a regular  basis as soon as next year.
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A Canadian team vying for the $10 million X Prize is scrounging for parts, while the heavy favorite, Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne, is ready for a launch next week. By Dan Brekke.
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The second attempt by the rocketplane SpaceShipOne to soar into space and snag    the &#36;10 million Ansari X Prize is planned for Monday, officials announced last    night.
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On Wednesday September 29, a private company in California plans to launch a craft known as SpaceShipOne into near-earth orbit in an attempt to win the so-called &quot;Ansari X-Prize.
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Oct. 4 - A group of private citizens in California are hoping to make another giant leap for mankind. SpaceShipOne has already made it to space and back.
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LONDON, England -- British entrepreneur Richard Branson announced his company has signed a deal to offer the world&#39;s first commercial flights to space under the branding &quot;Virgin Galactic.
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SpaceShipOne, the first privately built, manned vehicle to reach space, roared to space and back again this morning from a launch site in California's Mojave desert.