X-Prize craft set for space shot
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The race for the $10m Ansari X-Prize begins in earnest on Wednesday as SpaceShipOne prepares to rocket to more than 100km above the Earth.
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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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The US space agency NASA plans to launch an experimental aircraft Monday that it hopes will set a new world record for air speed. If weather permits, an unpiloted wedge-shaped X-43 aircraft
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Despite a spectacular series of unplanned barrel rolls, SpaceShipOne completes the first of two compulsory flights that could net its developers the $10 million Ansari X Prize. Dan Brekke reports from Mojave, California.
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pioneering bid to win a $10 million (5.6 million pounds) prize and prove that space is open for business. space travel as ordinary as a Caribbean cruise.
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Virgin Galactic shows off the final design of the launch system that will take fare-paying passengers into space.
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SpaceShipOne will today attempt to reach an altitude of 100km for the second time in less than a fortnight, and thereby claim the $10m X-Prize for the first private space vehicle to accomplish the feat.
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The race to collect the Ansari X Prize has all the makings of a good television reality show. But the competition to win the $10 million prize is also drumming up renewed interest in space flight at a time
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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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ST. LOUIS -- It&#39;s a big day for a big check in St. Louis where the team behind a rocket plane called SpaceShipOne has accepted a $10 million prize for advancements in private space travel and tourism.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - A privately built rocket plane  will try to blast out of the atmosphere over the Mojave Desert  on Monday for the second time in less than a week to win a $10  million prize for the first commercially viable manned  spacecraft.
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Engineers for the space agency's experimental X-43A project prepare to break the aircraft speed record. But the hypersonic jet flight could be NASA's last. By Amit Asaravala.
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The rocket plane 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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Los Angeles The creators of SpaceShipOne are going for the ten (m) million-dollar prize. Despite an unexpected roll during its flight on Wednesday, designer Burt Rutan (ruh-TAN&#39;) has given notice that he will
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SpaceShipOne is one flight away from clinching the Ansari X Prize, a &#36;10 million award for the first privately developed manned rocket to reach space twice within 14 days.
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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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SpaceShipOne is just one flight away from claiming the Ansari X-Prize, a $10m award designed to kick-start private space travel.