Next for Private Spaceflight: Tourist Ships
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After flying successfully three times in space, SpaceShipOne is in demand as an alternative way to fly people and small payloads to suborbital space.
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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 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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SpaceShipOne will today attempt to reach an altitude of 100km for the second time in less than a fortnight, and thereby claim the $10m X-Prize for the first private space vehicle to accomplish the feat.
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SpaceShipOne, the privately built manned rocket aiming to claim the 10 million USD X-Prize, has completed the first of two qualifying flights, and is scheduled to attempt the winning second flight on 4 October, despite some technical concerns.
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MOJAVE, Calif. The SpaceShipOne aircraft is one flight away from clinching the Ansari X Prize, a 10-(m)million-dollar award for the first privately developed manned rocket to reach space twice within 14 days.
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When the first space vacations are available, Richard Branson will be there selling them. On Sept. 27, Branson&#39;s Virgin announced a partnership with Paul Allen&#39;s Mojave Aerospace Ventures and SpaceShipOne
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La navetta spaziale SpaceShipOne ha superato le due prove indispensabili per aggiudicarsi i 10milioni di dollari messi in palio con l&#39;Ansari X-Prize Race. Per la seconda volta nellâarco di 2 settimane la
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Just days after SpaceShipOne&#39;s prize-winning flight opened the world&#39;s eyes to the prospect for private spaceflight, legislation that might have opened the way for paying passengers to get on
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A private space plane is set to  shoot beyond Earth's atmosphere for the second time in a week  on Monday in a pioneering bid to win a $10 million prize and  prove that space is open for business.
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LOS ANGELES  -- The world's first private manned spacecraft will make its second space flight in five days Monday in the final stage of its attempt to win a 10 million USD prize, organisers said.       SpaceShipOne is scheduled to take off at around 7:00 am (1400 GMT) and blast out of the earth's atmosphere just over an hour later in its quest for the Ansari X Prize purse, aimed at spurring a new era of commercial space travel...
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SpaceShipOne, the world&#39;s first privately developed spaceship, is fueled and ready to embark this morning on a flight into space in a bid to claim the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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Summary - (Sep 27, 2004) Entrepreneur Richard Branson announced today that his company, Virgin Galactic, will be taking Scaled Composite&#39;s SpaceShipOne to the next logical step, and offer flights to the public.
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Can cruise ships and nature coexist? An experiment gets under way in Cozumel to test the idea.
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Space entrepreneurs say they believe they are on the brink of developing a vibrant tourism industry, but worry that government regulation may stifle it before it can take off.
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Marketing is a big part of the private space race - and, its boosters say, an essential one.
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No sooner had SpaceShipOne glided back to terra firma, claiming both the $10 million Ansari X Prize and distinction as the first privately funded manned spaceflight, than talk turned to a glorious future: personal space trips .
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A new challenge awaits private rocketeers hoping to breach the space frontier with their own versions of reusable spacecraft, this one demanding faster and hardier vehicles capable of orbital flights.