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X Prize

698 words, approx. 3 pages

X Prize In the early twenty-first century, millions of people fly on airplanes between cities around the world. At any one time, an astounding 10 million people are airborne. But it was not always thi... Read more

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Google sponsors 30-million-dollar prize for moon shot

319 words, approx. 2 pages

San Francisco (dpa) - Internet giant Google announced a 30- million-dollar prize Thursday for a team that manages to send an unmanned buggy to the moon and beam back one gig... Read more

Virgin's Branson unveils commercial spaceship model

371 words, approx. 2 pages

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Entrepreneur Richard Branson Wednesday unveiled a model of the spaceship he hopes will be the first to take paying passengers into space on a regular basis next year. Branson,... Read more

Moon 2.0 Is The Next Mission For X Prize Group, And Google

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Google is going to the moon, and it will spend $30 million to get there. Google GOOG will sponsor the newest contest by the X Prize Foundation, which three years ago handed $10 million to a team th... Read more

Spaceship maker cited for fatal blast

419 words, approx. 2 pages

The company that flew the first privately funded manned rocket into space has been cited in connection with an explosion last summer that killed three workers, the state said Friday.California occu... Read more

2 killed in explosion at Mojave airport site used by pioneering rocket firm

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An explosion on Thursday killed two workers and critically injured four others at a Mojave Desert airport site used by the pioneering aerospace company that sent the first private manned rocket int... Read more

2 killed in explosion at California airport site used by pioneering rocket firm

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An explosion killed two workers and critically injured four others at a Mojave Desert airport site used by the pioneering aerospace company that sent the first private manned rocket into space, aut... Read more

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Space Tourist Wants More Space Travel

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Now that she's learned to walk in gravity again, American space tourist Anousheh Ansari has some things to take care of on Earth: developing a new company, promoting science and space travel, ... Read more

Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo model

737 words, approx. 3 pages

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Entrepreneur Richard Branson Wednesday unveiled a model of the spaceship he hopes will be the first to take paying passengers into space on a regular basis as soon as next yea... Read more

First Female Space Tourist to Blast Off

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Since long before leaving her native Iran as a teenager in 1984, Anousheh Ansari stared at the stars and dreamed of traveling closer to them. Now at age 40, after an improbable journe... Read more