Success For Spaceship One
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MOJAVE -- Burt Rutan&#39;s space ship one made its first trip into sub-orbital outer space in pursuit of the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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Tehachapi resident Michael Melvill, pilot of SpaceShipOne, made a second successful flight into space on the morning of Sept. 29 to vie for the $10 million prize in the Ansari XPrize competition.
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Reacting swiftly to the Soviet success with Sputnik I, the United States makes its first foray into space a highly successful one.
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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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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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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 rocket plane SpaceShipOne, built by aviation pioneer Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft Corp. co- founder Paul Allen, won the $10 million competition aimed at creating a space tourism
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SpaceShipOne's second flight laid the foundations for what organizers hope will be a new era of cheap, reliable access to space.
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The privately owned and operated SpaceShipOne spacecraft has won the $10 million Ansari X Prize by successfully making its second manned flight into space.
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Flying the first commercial test pilot into space three months ago was more than a feat of entrepreneurial engineering. SpaceShipOne's maiden flight just beyond the edge of the atmosphere also required a little bureaucratic ingenuity from Patricia Grace Smith and her staff at the Federal Aviation Administration.
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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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Brian Binnie, a veteran US Navy aviator and one of four pilots trained to fly SpaceShipOne, piloted the spacecraft. &quot;Flying this vehicle is literally a rush,&quot; he said after the historic flight.
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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new realm of space, and it's beaming back some surprises.
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Despite a literally screwy launch, the spacecraft pulls off a successful flight, leaving one more between it and $10 million.
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SpaceShipOne landed safely on Wednesday in the California desert after a wild corkscrew-like ascent into space, and is now a step closer to a
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MOJAVE, California -- SpaceShipOne made history Monday and triumphed in the international Ansari X Prize race to launch the first privately built spacecraft.
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The space shuttle Endeavour landed safely yesterday after a mission that successfully tested many of the safety modifications put into place after the Columbia disaster four years ago.