SpaceShipOne a Flight Away From $10M Prize
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MOJAVE, Calif. Oct. 4, 2004 - Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen has sunk more than $20 million into developing a manned rocket that reaches space.
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SpaceShipOne completed the first leg of its bid for a $10-million civilian space prize above the Mojave California desert on Wednesday.
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MOJAVE, Calif. -- SpaceShipOne corkscrewed its way into space yesterday, succeeding in its first of two runs for the $10 million X Prize, but not before prompting the event&#39;s otherwise effusive commentator to drop an octave and utter, &quot;Uh-oh.
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Despite a few tense moments, the SpaceShipOne rocket plane made a successful manned flight into space, putting it in the lead in the race to win the $10-million Ansari X Prize.
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Rocket plane SpaceShipOne is attempting a second space flight in a bid to clinch the $10 million Ansari X-Prize. Judges officially confirmed that pilot Mike Melvill took the craft to 64 miles on Wednesday&#39;s first flight.
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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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After an unprecedented span of just five days, SpaceShipOne is ready for a return trip to space on Monday, its final flight to clinch a $10 million prize.
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SpaceShipOne is one flight away from clinching the Ansari X Prize, a &#36;10 million award for the first privately developed manned rocket to reach space twice within 14 days.
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SpaceShipOne has completed its second suborbital flight in five days, securing the $10 million Ansari X Prize. SpaceShipOne is the first privately built, manned vehicle to reach space.
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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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SpaceShipOne, the world&#39;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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A privately built rocket plane will try to blast out of the atmosphere over the Mojave Desert on Monday for the second time in less than a week to win a $10 million prize for the first commercially viable manned spacecraft.
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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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MOJAVE, Calif. The builders of SpaceShipOne are trying to decide whether to proceed with another flight into space next week to win the 10 (m) million dollar X Prize.
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The race for the $10m Ansari X-Prize begins in earnest on Wednesday as SpaceShipOne prepares to rocket to more than 100km above the Earth.
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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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MOJAVE, Calif.  - SpaceShipOne landed safely on  Wednesday in the California desert after a wild corkscrew-like  ascent into space in a shot for a $10 million prize offered to  the first privately funded, manned craft to reach beyond the  atmosphere.