It was a one-of-a-kind moment for a throng of well-wishers, including this reporter, all in nose-up, sky-squinting position at California's Mojave Airport on June 21, 2004. Let loose from its White ...

MOJAVE, Calif. – A stout, star-spangled rocket plane broke through the Earth's atmosphere to the edge of space Monday for the second time in five days, capturing a $10 million prize aimed at opening ...

MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA - The White Knight mothership that cradles SpaceShipOne is airborne and headed for the second of two flights to cash in on the $10 million Ansari X Prize. Piloting SpaceShipOne is ...

MOJAVE, Calif. – SpaceShipOne (search) is one flight away from clinching the Ansari X Prize (search), a $10 million award for the first privately developed manned rocket to reach space twice within 14 ...

Thousands of obervers at the Mojave Spaceport and millions watching via webcast and TV were able to follow today’s dramatic flight to space of the SpaceShipOne suborbital vehicle via Ecliptic’s ...

EVERETT — Part of the history of space flight is now on display in Snohomish County. A full-size replica of SpaceShipOne, the first privately built rocket to take passengers into space, was hoisted ...

SpaceShipOne, the world's first privately-built piloted spacecraft, has touched down after a decade in 'Flight.' The historic space plane, which flew three suborbital flights in 2004 and then was ...

Failures of trim controls for pitch, yaw and roll set back Scaled Composites' bid for to take $10 million X-Prize Scaled Composites' drive to claim the $10 million Ansari X-Prize is on hold while the ...

As maverick California aircraft designer Burt Rutan sees it, there's little left to prove — just an impressive $10 million prize and an attractive trophy to collect. He'll attempt that this week as ...

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