Fossett says he reached glider record
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U.S. tycoon and adventurer Steve Fossett, already famous for sailboating and solo ballooning records, claims to have soared to new heights in an engineless glider over the Argentine Andes.
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A Russian cosmonaut set a new record for the longest golf  drive in history today after hitting a lightweight ball while tethered to the outside of  the International Space Station (ISS).
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CHICAGO -- Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who risked his life seeking to set records in high-tech balloons, gliders and jets, was declared dead Friday, 5 months after he vanished while flying in an ordinary small plane.
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A plane flown by record breaking US adventurer Steve Fossett is missing in Nevada, officials say.
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The pilot and designer of a private rocket plane say they are confident it could return to the sky next week in a quest to claim a multimillion-dollar prize, despite a harrowing flight in which the spacecraft rolled dramatically while hurtling toward the edge of the atmosphere.
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Sir Richard Branson announces that he has signed an agreement to develop the world&#39;s first privately funded space travel. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA.
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Missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett was declared legally dead on Friday by a Chicago court five months after the airplane he was flying went missing over Nevada, U.S. media reported.
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Steve Fossett, a tycoon-turned-record-seeker who became the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon, vanished Monday while flying a single-engine plane over rugged terrain in Nevada, authorities said.
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By From staff and news services A paraglider who took off from a mountain in Vermont early Friday afternoon made a hard landing about five hours later on York Beach, after gliding about 150 miles. Sgt.
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Adventurer Steve Fossett is set to fly an experimental jet around the world without stopping or refuelling.
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The US space agency (NASA) says an unmanned supersonic jet Tuesday succeeded in breaking a speed record. NASA says preliminary data from its X-43A experimental aircraft shows it reached speeds
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When SpaceShipOne glided to a stop Monday, it marked a turning point in personal space travel. About an hour after it landed, X Prize founder Peter Diamandis declared the
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Searchers looked in the mountains of western Nevada for Steve Fossett, known for his quests to set world records.
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Flying solo around the globe non-stop has been hailed as the last great aviation challenge on earth by Sir Richard Branson, who has put more than Â£1 million into the project.
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altitude without the heart-stopping barrel rolls that vexed the craft&#39;s qualifying flight on Wednesday. world altitude record for a fixed-wing aircraft, set in 1963 by the experimental X-15 rocket plane.
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It&#39;s small, but it&#39;s fast, as NASA&#39;s unmanned &quot;scramjet&quot; proved Tuesday in a record-breaking demonstration above the Pacific Ocean.
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CAPE CANAVERAL -- It's a whole different kind of launch countdown: More than eight years and . . . still counting for many NASA astronauts who have done everything except, you know, fly in space. For example, consider Lee Archambault, a 20-year Air Force test pilot and longtime astronaut.