SpaceShipOne Wins $10 Mln X Prize With Today&#39;s Flight
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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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MOJAVE, Calif. Oct. 4, 2004 - A stubby rocket plane was slung from the belly of a carrier plane toward space Monday in the final leg of a trip toward the edge of the Earth&#39;s atmosphere and a $10 million prize.
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SpaceShipOne, the world's first privately built manned spacecraft, completed its third round-trip journey to space today, laying claim to the ten-million-dollar (U.S.) Ansari X Prize.
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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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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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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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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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After an unplanned &quot;victory roll&quot; as SpaceShipOne climbed to more than 63 miles above Earth, civilian astronaut Mike Melvill glided the rocket plane to a safe landing Wednesday, putting his team in the lead to capture the $10 million Ansari X Prize
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A MANNED private rocketship burst through the Earth&#39;s atmosphere into space today after a hair-raising ascent, putting it half-way towards winning a $US10 million ($13.
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I applaud Burt Rutan and the SpaceShipOne team for their miraculous achievement of winning the Ansari X Prize. As an astronaut, I understand well the challenges they faced in reaching suborbital space.
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Scaled Composites&#39; SpaceShipOne broke the 100-km barrier for the second time, satisfying the conditions to win the $10 million X Prize.
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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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A maverick California company is poised to launch a bid today to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize, a global competition expected to spur a &quot;personal spaceflight revolution.
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A pioneering aviation company will attempt to rocket into space on Wednesday in a bid to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize. The prize will go to the first non-governmental vehicle that can ferry three people
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Rocket plane SpaceShipOne is attempting a second space flight in a bid to clinch the $10 million Ansari X-Prize. Judges officially confirmed that pilot Mike Melvill took the craft to 64 miles on Wednesday&#39;s first flight.
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SpaceShipOne will attempt to rocket into space today for the second time - following last Wednesdayâs successful flight - in order to bag the $10 million Ansari X Prize, which has gone unclaimed for eight years.
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MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA - Human    flight took a significant step forward today as the privately built SpaceShipOne    flew into suborbital space for the second time in five days, apparently securing    the &#36;10 million Ansari X Prize.