Houston, we have a winner: Allen&#39;s group claims X Prize
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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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The X PRIZE Foundation announced today a new education competition designed to cultivate interest and excitement in the fields of space, science and technology.
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SpaceShipOne&#39;s successful flights did more than win $10 million - they proved to the world that space is open for all humanity.
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Sponsors of the $10 million (euro8.13 million) Ansari X Prize, which helped propel a privately built manned rocket into space this week, announced Thursday a plan to offer other prizes to spur innovation in other fields.
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Brian Binnie (top left in image), grabbed previous Pilot&#39;s Mike Melvill&#39;s torch and flew the second leg of the X Prize competition in Burt Rutan&#39;s SpaceShipOne.
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The rolling experienced by SpaceShipOne on its first Ansari X Prize flight on Wednesday will not jeopardise the team&#39;s chances of winning the $10 million purse, team members said in a post-flight briefing.
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Things are looking up for the team at Scaled Composites and Paul Allen. The group successfully completed the first privately manned space flight on June 21st.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Web search leader  Google Inc. will sponsor a $30 million competition for an  unmanned lunar landing, following up on the $10 million Ansari  X Prize that spurred a private sector race to space.
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Marking the end of a years-long quest, the team behind the SpaceShipOne rocket plane on Saturday accepted the $10 million Ansari X Prize for advancements in private space travel and tourism.
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A Californian-based team is halfway to claiming a $10 million prize by putting a privately financed manned craft into sub-orbital space.
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ALAMOGORDO, N.M. - The New Mexico Museum of Space History will be shipping names to the stars with the first X-Prize launch into space...
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A Canadian team of rocketeers has moved one step closer to launching its own manned spacecraft with the successful parachute drop test of a crew capsule today.  &nbsp;  The backers of Canadian Arrow, a rocket entry in the &#36;10 million Ansari X Prize competition, watched happily as their crew compartment drifted down into Lake Ontario.  &nbsp;  Today totally proves our Canadian Arrow design, said Geoff Sheerin, leader of the London, Ontario-based Arrows bid for the X Prize. It went really well and everything worked as it should. ...
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WHAT&#39;s the prize beneath the cap of that soft drink bottle? A trip into space. It may sound far-fetched - if not a little crass â-ut the commercialisation of the final frontier began in earnest yesterday
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The European space agency is celebrating the successful launch of its probe to Saturn&#39;s largest moon, Titan. The Huygens probe was launched from the NASA spacecraft Cassini which was orbiting Saturn and is due to reach Titan in mid-January.
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There have been two important pieces of space-related news recently, the first of which was the European moon probe&#39;s success in entering the moon&#39;s orbit.
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The rocket plane SpaceShipOne, built by aviation pioneer Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft Corp. co- founder Paul Allen, won the $10 million competition aimed at creating a space tourism
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TheSpaceShipOne team is handed the $10m cheque and trophy it won for claiming the Ansari X-Prize.