SpaceShipOne is Time&#39;s &#39;Invention of the Year&#39;
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SpaceShipOne, the world first privately developed spacecraft that first entered the space in October, has been named &#39;2004 Invention of the Year&#39; by Time magazine as a part of its annual &#39;Coolest Invention&#39; issue.
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A British multimillionaire, Richard Branson, has just signed a substantial contract with the makers of SpaceShipOne for the development and construction of passenger-carrying space vehicles.
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Virgin Airlines has outclassed its counterparts once again by announcing that, by 2006, passengers will be able to travel to space aboard the Virgin Galactic spaceship.
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Someday, we may see Wednesday as being one of the most important dates in the history of aviation. The flight of &quot;SpaceShipOne,&quot; however, seemed almost routine - at least until one thought about how miraculous it was.
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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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The ancient art of sailing gets a space-age update next year with the launch of the first sunlight-propelled &quot;solar sail&quot; spacecraft.
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Get fun facts on SpaceShipOne, the first privately built manned spacecraft. For starters, the ship burns a mixture of rubber and laughing gas.
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You don&#39;t need to carry a light saber or speak Klingon to get excited about the doings in Mojave today. SpaceShipOne, the product of aviation visionary Burt Rutan
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SpaceShipOne, which is solely funded by Paul G. Allen, was designed by aviation legend Burt Rutan and built by his company, Scaled Composites.
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Mojave, Calif.âIn a spectacular flight that opened a new window to space - and the imagination â-paceShipOne rocketed to victory in the international Ansari X Prize competition yesterday.
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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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Satisfied that his spaceplane is sound despite a series of unexpected rolls during Wednesday's flight, Burt Rutan will send SpaceShipOne aloft as scheduled to try to capture the $10 million X Prize. By Dan Brekke.
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Oct. 4 - A group of private citizens in California are hoping to make another giant leap for mankind. SpaceShipOne has already made it to space and back.
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The world&#39;s first passenger service to space will start carrying fee-paying astronauts from 2007, say two entrepreneurs, although some are not so convinced with their ambitious time-frame.
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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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SpaceShipOne, the world&#39;s first privately built manned spacecraft, blasted into space for the second time in less than a week on Monday to claim the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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MARK COLVIN: Space travel is a childhood dream, but today it got a little closer to adult reality, for the wealthy, at any rate. The prototype private space vessel &quot;SpaceShipOne&quot; made a mostly successful manned test flight over the American Mojave Desert.