Microsoft Is Building a Spaceship Out of Spare Parts
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A look at the key assets that will have to be combined: Most of them are unusually delicate machines with lots of interdependencies that well could be thrown off by a combination.
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Microsoft is taking the wraps off this week, but the notion of a table-like computer has generated interest at the company since at least 2001.Photos: On the road to Microsoft's Milan
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Also: Space station spreads its solar wings. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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SpaceShipOne - as much a work of art as a groundbreaking flying machine â-as recast the mold for spaceflight established by NASA largely because it doesn&#39;t have to worry
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San Francisco (dpa) - Microsoft is working toward a bare-bones personal computer that would cost less than 100 dollars and could help stem rampant software piracy in emerging countries, CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday, according to tech news service ZDNet
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The main oxygen generator aboard the International Space Station, which has been malfunctioning since last month, was partially repaired using spare parts that arrived last week.
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MOJAVE, Calif. - Hoping to build on the momentum sparked by SpaceShipOne's dash into space, supporters of opening the heavens to civilians are turning the winner-take-all race into an annual competition that might further fuel imaginations...
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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 creator of  the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space traveled to New York to show detailed models of a new bigger, model.
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FORMER MICROSOFT man Paul Allen has been the first man to privately finance a spaceship that has got a civilian into space twice. SpaceShipOne put former US Navy test pilot Brian Binnie into space within two
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Redmond, Wash.-based start-up specializes in building high-end PCs into deluxe handcrafted furniture.
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A device that turns heat to sound and sound to electricity could power spacecraft.
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A Canadian team vying for the $10 million X Prize is scrounging for parts, while the heavy favorite, Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne, is ready for a launch next week. By Dan Brekke.
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Since the loss of the Columbia space shuttle, Russia has ferried all crews and cargoes on its smaller space craft. Costing around $22 million each to construct and launch, unmanned Progress freighters carry supplies.
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Digital models of an historic ship are created as part of its restoration to test if it will survive the process.
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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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The creator of the first privately financed craft to carry a human into space showed models of a new, bigger version.