Adventurer to launch solo flight from Kansas
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the first person to circumnavigate the globe solo in a balloon -- will begin his attempt at the first solo, nonstop flight around the world without refueling from an airport in Salina.
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South African adventurer Mike Horn on Thursday became the first man to circumnavigate the Arctic Circle without motorized transport, completing a more than two-year solo odyssey.
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RENO, Nevada  - Air crews planned to search through Thursday night for missing U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett on a mission they likened to looking for a needle in a haystack in the vast Nevada desert.
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Searchers were scheduled to begin looking again Wednesday for missing adventurer Steve Fossett, who disappeared in a single-engine plane after taking off from a friend's desert ranch, the Civil Air Patrol said.
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SpaceShipOne, the privately built manned rocket aiming to claim the 10 million USD X-Prize, has completed the first of two qualifying flights, and is scheduled to attempt the winning second flight on 4 October, despite some technical concerns.
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Kevin Bomback took off in his plane two weeks ago to escape Hurricane Ivan. No one has seen him, his plane or his family since.
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Record-breaking adventurer took off in Nevada yesterday morning but did not return as scheduled.
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TELLURIDE, COLORADO -- Better make room for an extra crewmember aboard any spaceship heading outward. This person wont require food, oxygen or water, nor even need to buckle up for safety. The tag-along traveler could, however, be a lifesaver in terms of getting the expedition to and from a celestial destination.
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By JOHN ANTCZAK    MOJAVE, Calif.  -- A test pilot in a stubby rocket plane will try to climb more than 60 miles over the Mojave Desert and punch through the atmosphere Wednesday in the first stage of a quest to win a $10 million prize meant to encourage space tourism...
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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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U.S. millionaire adventurer Steve  Fossett, who made record-breaking solo flights by plane and  balloon, has disappeared over the Nevada desert after taking  off in a small plane to scout sites for an attempt to set a  world land speed record, authorities said on Tuesday.
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MOJAVE, CALIF: Completing the first leg of a quest for a $10 million prize, a test pilot took a privately financed plane past the cusp of space on Wednesday morning in a flight that had equal measures of white-knuckle moments and triumph.
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By JON GLASS  BY Jon Glass  The Virginian-Pilot  The Air Force has scheduled Saturday as the new launch day for the Minotaur I rocket at Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, officials said Thursday night.
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U.S. tycoon and adventurer Steve Fossett, already famous for sailboating and solo ballooning records, claims to have soared to new heights in an engineless glider over the Argentine Andes.
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Adventurer Steve Fossett is set to fly an experimental jet around the world without stopping or refuelling.
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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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Ignoring a warning to abort the flight, a test pilot took a stubby-looking rocket plane on a corkscrewing, white-knuckle ride past the edge of the atmosphere Wednesday, completing the first stage of a quest to win a &#36;10 million prize.