Unlike NASA, SpaceShipOne and other private pioneers can afford to ...
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SpaceShipOne - as much a work of art as a groundbreaking flying machine â-as recast the mold for spaceflight established by NASA largely because it doesn&#39;t have to worry
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The only private team to send a person to space expects to make one more flight on Monday to claim a $10 million prize. SpaceShipOne flew to 337,500 feet on Wednesday despite an unexpected roll during its rocket firing.
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A new challenge awaits private rocketeers hoping to breach the space frontier with their own versions of reusable spacecraft, this one demanding faster and hardier vehicles capable of orbital flights.
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ST. LOUIS -- It&#39;s a big day for a big check in St. Louis where the team behind a rocket plane called SpaceShipOne has accepted a $10 million prize for advancements in private space travel and tourism.
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SpaceShipOne pioneer Burt Rutan gives a glimpse of what paying passengers can expect when they travel into space.
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SpaceShipOne hopes to go two for two. The spacecraft is scheduled for launch early tomorrow from California. At stake is a tenmillion-dollar prize being offered for the first privately developed manned rocket to reach space twice within 14 days.
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Paul Allen&#39;s money and vision recently gave the world its first privately financed space flights. Why can&#39;t his football team get a yard?
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The dream of opening space to the general public was given a tremendous boost in 2004 with SpaceShipOne's prize-winning suborbital jaunt and congressional legislation to help establish a space travel industry in the United States. But even the biggest champions of commercial spaceflight acknowledge that a vital space tourism market is still years from becoming reality.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - SpaceShipOne, the world's first  privately funded manned spacecraft, on Monday reached space for  the second time in less than a week to win a $10 million prize  designed to spur commercial space travel.
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After flying successfully three times in space, SpaceShipOne is in demand as an alternative way to fly people and small payloads to suborbital space.
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Get fun facts on SpaceShipOne, the first privately built manned spacecraft. For starters, the ship burns a mixture of rubber and laughing gas.
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The head of the US space agency, NASA, says private enterprise will play an important role in space in the future. While visiting California, NASA administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe watched the launch of the privately
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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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SpaceShipOne, the world&#39;s first privately built manned spacecraft, blasted into space for the second time in less than a week on Monday to claim the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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The rocket plane 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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A ticket may soon be all that separates you from a dream voyage to the final frontier. British entrepreneur Richard Branson said Virgin company -- which includes an airline -- plans to start offering commercial space flights over the next few years.
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Marketing is a big part of the private space race - and, its boosters say, an essential one.