US private space rocket crashes
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A private space rocket launched from New Mexico malfunctions before it reaches space.
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A private jet on its way to pick up the former US President, George Bush, has crashed in bad weather near Houston in Texas, killing the three crew members on board.
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(CBS/AP) The first private manned rocket to reach space soared toward the edge of the atmosphere again in an unexpectedly bumpy ride Wednesday in the first half of a bid to earn a $10 million prize.
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Problems with switches aboard NASA&#39;s Genesis solar probe may have kept its parachute from opening, which led to the craft&#39;s crash-landing in the Utah desert, the US space agency said.
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MOJAVE, Calif. - The first private manned rocket to reach space soared into the air again Wednesday under the belly of a jet, beginning a quest for a $10 million prize and another spot in the history books...
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A rocket carrying an Israeli spy satellite crashed shortly after liftoff on Monday, officials said.
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One of the most innovative missions in space exploration has come to a dramatic close as Europe's first probe to the Moon crashed into the lunar surface giving stargazers around the world an astronomical fireworks display.
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PASADENA, Calif.  - A space capsule returning  solar particles to Earth crashed in the Utah desert on  Wednesday after its parachute failed to open, but scientists  were hoping that the star dust inside might have been saved.
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - Scientists with tweezers picked through the twisted wreckage of a space capsule that crash-landed on Earth, hoping that microscopic clues to the evolution of the solar system weren't completely lost in Utah's salt flats.    NASA engineers were stunned Wednesday when neither parachute deployed aboard the Genesis capsule and the craft plummeted to the ground at 193 mph, breaking open like a clamshell and exposing its collection of solar atoms to contamination...
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Kern County -- The first privately funded rocket to reach space completed the first half of a $10 million flight competition Wednesday by soaring to an altitude of 64 miles -- but only after enduring a white-knuckle series of barrel rolls.
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WASHINGTON - An important test of the United States&#39; emerging missile-defense system ended in an $85 million failure early Wednesday as an interceptor rocket failed to launch as scheduled from the Marshall Islands, the Pentagon said.
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A MANNED private rocketship burst through the Earth&#39;s atmosphere into space today after a hair-raising ascent, putting it half-way towards winning a $US10 million ($13.
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PASADENA, Calif.  - A space capsule returning  solar particles to Earth after a three-year mission that probed  the origins of the solar system crashed in the Utah desert  before it could be captured in a mid-air recovery, officials at  the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Wednesday.
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A privately built rocket plane has won a 10 million US dollar prize for the first commercially viable manned spacecraft. Space Ship One has touched down in a US desert after
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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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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico  - The launch of   a commercial rocket in New Mexico that the organizers hope will   usher in a new era of cheap public access to space was delayed   on Monday because of an electrical problem.
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Groundbreaking technology A revolutionary* new robotic whisper-mode helicopter under development in America has crashed, according to reports.â¦