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 ...

Organizers of the Ansari X Prize announced Friday that SpaceShipOne will launch as planned on Oct. 4 to seal its victory for the competition's $10 million award. The second voyage of Paul Allen's ...

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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. “Burt ...

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 ...

For the entirety of the 20th century, from Yuri Gagarin to Alan Shepard to Sally Ride and Mae Jemison, humans that traveled outside of Earth’s atmosphere did so in spacecraft owned and created by a ...

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, ...

SpaceShipOne has completed its historic flight and has safely landed. SpaceShipOne reached its projected altitude of 62 miles (100 kilometers) even though its engine cut off early. This is the first ...

Before it was ever named SpaceShipOne, the world's first private-sector spaceship was designed for a splashdown if necessary. And when the rocket plane and its carrier airplane made a farewell trip to ...

MOJAVE, Calif. -- Burt and the billionaire kept their eye on the prize yesterday, collecting $10 million and symbolically launching a new era in private space exploration. SpaceShipOne, the ...

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 ...

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 ...