SpaceShipOne Wins $10 Million X Prize
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The $10 million Ansari X Prize is offered to the first private company to fly a rocket carrying either three humans -- or a pilot and the equivalent weight of two passengers -- to at least the
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MOJAVE, Calif. - The private manned rocket SpaceShipOne (search) streaked toward space early Monday in a bid to top an altitude of 62 miles for the second time in six days and claim the $10 million Ansari X Prize (search).
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The American private rocket SpaceShipOne completed another successful space flight to clinch a Â£5.6 million prize for the first commercial, manned craft to reach sub-orbital space twice in two weeks.
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The only private team to send a person to space expects to make one more flight on Monday to claim a $10 million prize. SpaceShipOne flew to 337,500 feet on Wednesday despite an unexpected roll during its rocket firing.
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SpaceShipOne, the world&#39;s first privately built manned spacecraft, blasted into space for the second time in less than a week on Monday to claim the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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MOJAVE, CALIF. - A privately built and operated spacecraft roared out of the atmosphere on Wednesday with a historic flight that brings the team one step closer to winning a $10-million US prize.
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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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Aviation legend Burt Rutan won the $10 million Ansari X Prize on Monday with another flight to space for his SpaceShipOne, capping an eight-year quest in the St.
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Satisfied that his spaceplane is sound despite a series of unexpected rolls during Wednesday's flight, Burt Rutan will send SpaceShipOne aloft as scheduled to try to capture the $10 million X Prize. By Dan Brekke.
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After an unplanned &quot;victory roll&quot; as SpaceShipOne climbed to more than 63 miles above Earth, civilian astronaut Mike Melvill glided the rocket plane to a safe landing Wednesday, putting his team in the lead to capture the $10 million Ansari X Prize
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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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SpaceShipOne is just one flight away from claiming the Ansari X-Prize, a $10m award designed to kick-start private space travel.
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SpaceShipOne on Monday captured the $10 million Ansari X prize when it made a second flight in less than a week to the edge of space.
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US rocketship SpaceShipOne has blasted into space for the second time in five days, staking claim to a $10-million prize for the first private manned space travel and setting a new altitude record.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - The world's first privately  funded manned spacecraft soared to the blackened frontiers of  space for the second time in a week on Monday, setting set a  new altitude record and clinching a $10 million prize designed  to spur commercial space travel
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - A privately built rocket plane  blasted straight up through blue skies above the Mojave desert  on Monday and reached its target altitude in a bid to win a $10  million prize for the first commercially viable manned  spacecraft, flight controllers said.
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Rocket plane SpaceShipOne is to attempt a second space flight on Monday in a bid to clinch the $10m Ansari X-Prize. Judges officially confirmed that pilot Mike Melvill took the craft to 103km (64 miles) on Wednesday&#39;s first flight.