Entrepreneur Unveils New Tourist Spacecraft
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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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Richard Branson, Britain&#39;s best-known entrepreneur and part-time daredevil, plans to launch the world&#39;s first passenger service to space in 2007, offering zero-gravity flights for 110,000 pounds ($198,600).
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Within a few years, a handful of rich tourists may be blasting into space in a craft that looks a little like a cross between the space shuttle and a corporate jet.
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Burt Rutan and Paul Allen&#39;s spunky-looking little spaceplane had just returned to the runway after winning the $10 million Ansari X Prize, and prize founder Peter Diamandis had a message for investors around the world who might be watching.
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PARIS - European aerospace company EADS on Wednesday unveiled a model of a jet designed to take tourists into space, rocketing paying passengers to weightlessness at more than 62 miles above the Earth.
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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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European aerospace company EADS on Wednesday unveiled a model of a jet designed to take tourists into space, rocketing paying passengers to weightlessness at more than 62 miles above the Earth.
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A Chinese businessman has paid $200,000 (about 103,000 pounds) to become his country's first space tourist, hoping for lift-off some time by the end of 2008.
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LOS ANGELES - Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism faces a myriad of safety concerns - in the sky and on the ground - that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off...
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MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA - In a mission that could herald a new era of space tourism, a privately built, three-person rocket ship flew to space and back today in a mission that frightened those who watched from the ground and on a live webcast.
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Virgin Galactic shows off the final design of the launch system that will take fare-paying passengers into space.
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Like millions of people fascinated by space, Anousheh Ansari said Wednesday she remembers wondering as a child if somebody else like her could be out there among the stars. Next month the Iranian-born U.S. entrepreneur can get a closer look, as she rides a Russian capsule to the international space station and becomes the first female space tourist.
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The creator of  the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space traveled to New York to show detailed models of a new bigger, model.
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SpaceShipOne pioneer Burt Rutan gives a glimpse of what fare-paying passengers can expect when they take their ride into space.
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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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Sept. 27 - British billionaire Sir richard Branson announced today (Monday) his latest venture will be out of this world. Branson is launching &quot;Virgin Galactic&quot;, which will build 5 space craft capable flying more than 80 miles above the earth.
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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.