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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I applaud Burt Rutan and the SpaceShipOne team for their miraculous achievement of winning the Ansari X Prize. As an astronaut, I understand well the challenges they faced in reaching suborbital space.
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MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA - Human    flight took a significant step forward today as the privately built SpaceShipOne    flew into suborbital space for the second time in five days, apparently securing    the &#36;10 million Ansari X Prize.
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POWAY, Calif. -- The man whose firm built the engine expected to power SpaceShipOne into suborbital space today plans to build his own craft and compete with his more celebrated partners, Paul Allen and Burt Rutan, for the extraterrestrial turf.
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The private spacecraft SpaceShipOne briefly entered space above the California desert Wednesday, completing the first of two qualifying flights for the $10 million X Prize.
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The creator of the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space showed models of a new, bigger version.
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You don&#39;t need to carry a light saber or speak Klingon to get excited about the doings in Mojave today. SpaceShipOne, the product of aviation visionary Burt Rutan
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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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A MANNED rocket ship, financed entirely with private funds, reached the edge of space on Monday. The spaceship&#39;s builders and backers say the project&#39;s success marks a new age for commercial space tourism and travel.
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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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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.
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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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Los Angeles The creators of SpaceShipOne are going for the ten (m) million-dollar prize. Despite an unexpected roll during its flight on Wednesday, designer Burt Rutan (ruh-TAN&#39;) has given notice that he will
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Even before Burt Rutanâs SpaceShipOne soared on her second flight in six days to win the Ansari X Prize, the flamboyant British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, owner of Virgin Atlantic Airline, decided that he had seen an opportunity to make even more
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SpaceShipOne, financed by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen and built by aviation pioneer Burt Rutan, rocketed 62 miles over the California desert, completing the first half of
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Description: We consider what might be ahead for the future of private space travel. Will the SpaceShipOne flight kick off a new era of space development?
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The $10 million Ansari X Prize is offered to the first private company to fly a rocket carrying either three humans -- or a pilot and the equivalent weight of two passengers -- to at least the