Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first privately developed spacecraft to carry a pilot to suborbital space, SpaceShipOne made three successful spaceflights in ...

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NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today congratulated the SpaceShipOne team on the third successful flight of a private human spacecraft. The team also wins the $10 million X Prize competition. The X ...

SpaceShipOne didn’t need NASA to get to space. Emily A. Margolis When re-entering Earth’s atmosphere, SpaceShipOne employed a feathering system that raised to 65 degrees the rear half of the wings ...

Ingenious. Tireless. Masterful. Aerospace engineer and entrepreneur Burt Rutan turns ideas into winged vehicles that soar, take powered flight, and now rocket into space, safely returning to land ...

Burning Nitrous Oxide and Rubber (and not rolling) to 367,442 MSL (according to the chief on-site X Prize judge), Mojave Aerospace Ventures led by Burt Rutan and funded by Paul Allen Monday earned the ...

SpaceShipOne safely blasted to the brink of space and back for the second time in five days, potentially scooping the $10 million Ansari X Prize. Pilot Brian Binnie glided the rocket to a smooth ...

MOJAVE, Calif.--A venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen got a jump Wednesday on rivals eyeing a $10 million prize for the first privately funded junkets into space and back. A specialized ...

The SpaceShipOne rocket plane is filled up with mementos, fueled up and ready for the first of a pair of space missions that could reap a $10 million prize. The craft is to be piloted by Mike Melvill, ...

NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe today congratulated the SpaceShipOne team on the third successful flight of a private human spacecraft. The team also wins the $10 million X Prize competition. “Burt ...