SpaceShipOne a Flight Away From $10M Prize
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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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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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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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SpaceShipOne will lift off from its Mojave Desert airstrip in California about 7 am local time for flight to claim the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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MOJAVE, Calif. -- SpaceShipOne corkscrewed its way into space yesterday, succeeding in its first of two runs for the $10 million X Prize, but not before prompting the event&#39;s otherwise effusive commentator to drop an octave and utter, &quot;Uh-oh.
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The history-making spacecraft designed by aviation pioneer Burt Rutan will blast off Monday morning from a small airport in Mojave, California, in a bid for $10 million.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - A privately built rocket plane  and its mother ship lifted off into clear skies above the  Mojave Desert on Monday in a bid to win a $10 million prize for  the first commercially viable manned spacecraft.
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Led by Burt Rutan, the designers of SpaceShipOne -- the first privately manned rocket to enter outer space -- received a 150-pound trophy along with a check for $10 million Saturday.
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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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MOJAVE, Calif.  - SpaceShipOne, a three-seat  rocket plane with stubby wings and a nose studded with round  windows, lifted off from the wind-swept Mojave desert on  Wednesday in a bid to win a $10-million prize to spur  commercial space travel.
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On October 4, 2004, SpaceShipOne rocketed into history, becoming the first private manned spacecraft to exceed an altitude of 328,000 feet twice within the span of a 14 day period, thus claiming the ten million dollar Ansari X-Prize.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - SpaceShipOne landed safely on  Wednesday in the California desert after a wild corkscrew-like  ascent into space in a shot for a $10 million prize offered to  the first privately funded, manned craft to reach beyond the  atmosphere.
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No sooner had SpaceShipOne glided back to terra firma, claiming both the $10 million Ansari X Prize and distinction as the first privately funded manned spaceflight, than talk turned to a glorious future: personal space trips .
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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 star-spangled rocket plane returned to space yesterday, enabling a team of entrepreneurs to collect a $10 million prize for developing the first reusable private spacecraft.
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SpaceShipOne completed the first leg of its bid for a &#36;10-million civilian space prize with a wild corkscrew-like ascent into space above the California desert on Wednesday.
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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.