7Up tops off space flight with ticket to ride
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WHAT&#39;s the prize beneath the cap of that soft drink bottle? A trip into space. It may sound far-fetched - if not a little crass â-ut the commercialisation of the final frontier began in earnest yesterday
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com September 29, 2004, 7:06 AM PT. MOJAVE, Calif.--A specialized plane carrying a suborbital spacecraft took off shortly before 7:15 am PDT in an attempt to complete the first phase in the race to privatize space travel.
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Test pilot Michael Melvill flew a stubby civilian-built rocket plane 337,500 feet into suborbital space Wednesday, overcoming a series of spectacular unplanned rolls in a bid to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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An inflatable spacecraft designed as part of a project to put a hotel in space has successfully entered Earth's orbit.
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A Russian-built rocket carrying the world's first female space tourist lifted off Monday on a flight to the international space station.
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MOJAVE, Calif. Oct. 4, 2004 - A stubby rocket plane was slung from the belly of a carrier plane toward space Monday in the final leg of a trip toward the edge of the Earth&#39;s atmosphere and a $10 million prize.
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The space shuttle Atlantis has lifted off into the Florida sky Friday, carrying a crew of seven astronauts headed for the international space station. The mission was delayed by a damaging hailstorm and overshadowed by a lurid love triangle.
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Designer Burt Rutan&#39;s SpaceShipOne cracked through Earth&#39;s atmosphere and into outer space Sept. 29. Pilot Mike Mevill guided the aircraft to an altitude of 102,870 meters.
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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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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A patched-up Atlantis blasted off with seven astronauts Friday on the first space shuttle flight of 2007, putting NASA back on track after a run of bad luck and scandal that included a damaging hailstorm and a lurid love triangle.
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One short flight for man, or the start of a long voyage for rich men. That&#39;s one way of looking at Monday&#39;s historic jaunt of the revolutionary spacecraft SpaceShipOne, which crossed the brink of space for the second time in six days.
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SPACE.com / NEW YORK - There will be no shortage of high moments for future Virgin Galactic passengers set on a suborbital ride aboard a SpaceShipTwo spacecraft, a pilot who tested the vehicle's predecessor said Friday.
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Climbing to space like a winged corkscrew, SpaceShipOne successfully completed the first leg of its attempt for a $10-million prize Wednesday in a flight marked by an unexpected series of rolls.
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The privately-funded craft SpaceShipOne has completed a flight into space after an airborne launch above the California desert. The flight will bring the spaceship crew the $10 million X Prize.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A patched-up Atlantis blasted off with seven astronauts Friday on the first space shuttle flight of 2007, putting NASA back on track after a run of bad luck and scandal that included a damaging hailstorm and a lurid love triangle.
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By Ja'Rena Lunsford, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 17--Rocketplane Kistler is one step closer to launching a demonstration flight to the International Space Station.
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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 (8.