Prizes, Profit Could Fuel Private Space Race
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On Wednesday September 29, a private company in California plans to launch a craft known as SpaceShipOne into near-earth orbit in an attempt to win the so-called &quot;Ansari X-Prize.
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The creators of a private rocket plane will go ahead with plans for another launch 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.    Organizers of the $10 million Ansari X Prize announced without elaboration Thursday night that SpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan had told them he would go ahead with Monday morning's scheduled flight...
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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 funded manned spacecraft, on Monday reached space for the second time in less than a week to win a $10 million prize designed to spur commercial space travel.
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The first private manned rocket to reach space soared toward the edge of the atmosphere on Wednesday in a bid to earn the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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The successful X-Prize mission of Burt Rutan&#39;s SpaceShipOne last week was a major success for the commercial space industry. But although that success has led to the creation of space
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A privately built rocket plane has won a 10 million US dollar prize for the first commercially viable manned spacecraft. Space Ship One has touched down in a US desert after
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The foundation that inspired a private sector race to space announced a new $10 million prize on Wednesday -- this time to inspire a race to sequence the human genetic map faster and cheaper.
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The group that awarded US$10 million this week to the winner of an outer-space travel contest is gearing up to offer cash prizes for technology breakthroughs in medicine, computer science, transportation and a number of other arenas.
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The &#36;10 million competition to send a private manned rocket into space started looking more like a race Thursday, when a Canadian team announced plans to launch its rocket three days after an American group intends to begin qualifying for the Ansari X prize.
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Google Inc. is bankrolling a $30 million contest that could significantly boost the commercial space industry and spur the first non-governmental flight to the moon.
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The U.S. team that took the first  privately funded, manned ship into space makes a bid to capture  a $10 million prize this week -- signaling that commercial  space travel has nearly arrived.
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MOJAVE, Calif. - A $20 million, private investment in manned space flight earned a $10 million return yesterday when a stubby, white rocket captured the X Prize by soaring to the edge of space for the second time in less than a week.
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By JOHN ANTCZAK     MOJAVE, Calif.  -- Hoping to build on the momentum sparked by a private rocket plane'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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A private space plane is set to shoot beyond Earth&#39;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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As we reach for the stars, are there opportunities for investors in the new space race?
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Two business moguls announce plans to capitalize on the current hubbub over private spaceflight. Also: Speculation increases on whether SpaceShipOne will carry passengers on its second prize-attempt flight.... and more. By Dan Brekke.