SpaceX reports milestone, details future plans
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Elon Musk, who's also chairman of electric car maker Tesla Motors, talks about why he founded SpaceX and its progress so far.
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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 industry 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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A small, air-breathing test plane will attempt to blaze into history on Monday by flying at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. The hypersonic craft is one of three built by NASA for its $230-million Hyper-X project, established in 1996.
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NASA marked a major  milestone in its space shuttle return-to-flight efforts today with the  morning&nbsp;rollout of a redesigned fuel tank at Kennedy Space Center  (KSC).
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Marion C. Blakey, administrator of commercial space transportation for the Federal Aviation Administration, speaks with reporters following a briefing at the XCOR hangar at Mojave, Calif.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 7  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's space shuttle Atlantis completed a milestone to move it one step closer to a targeted March launch.
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Regardless, space competitions are poised to become big business.
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LONDON-September 27, 2004 - A ticket may soon be all that separates you from a dream voyage to the final frontier. British entrepreneur Richard Branson says Virgin company plans to start offering commercial space flights over the next few years.
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NASA appears on track to return the space shuttle to flight in May or June 2005 as planned, says an influential oversight panel. The independent task force - set up to oversee NASA&#39;s efforts following the
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The second test flight of a Falcon 1 rocket built by the private spaceflight firm Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has shifted to early March due to range safety demands at the company's island launch site.
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Flight Safety Technologies, Inc (AMEX: FLT) announced that on February  28, 2007 it had achieved an important milestone in demonstrating the  initial functional emulation of the Aircraft Wake Safety Management  (AWSM) system.
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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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British tycoon Richard Branson announced a plan for the world's first commercial space flights, saying &quot;thousands&quot; of fee-paying astronauts could be sent into orbit in the near future.
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NASA plans to try to set a world speed record for jets with the flight of a pilotless vehicle that culminates a decades-long research program into hypersonic flight.
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NASA plans to break the aircraft speed record for the second time in 7 1/2 months next week, by flying its X43a scramjet 110,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean at speeds close to Mach 10.
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China on Thursday revealed its plans for space  -- including space walking, spacecraft docking and the setting up of a space laboratory before 2010, state media reported.
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Engineers for the space agency's experimental X-43A project prepare to break the aircraft speed record. But the hypersonic jet flight could be NASA's last. By Amit Asaravala.