Mission control

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Project Prometheus that was named after the Greek god who gave humanity fire would concentrate on nuclear energy, which is the only form of power that could meet the mission's requirements. The aim is to build an interplanetary space probe capable of flying vast distances and beaming scientific information back to Earth.

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X Prize ends in desert drama

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SpaceShip One (SS1) designer Burt Rutan and his team geared up to snag the $10 million Ansari X Prize by flying to 100 km altitude twice within a two weeks span. Rutan and his team successfully demonstrated a new human spacecraft, a new propulsion system, and a new high-altitude airborne launch platform.

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Mission control: space beat

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The U.S. President George W. Bush has approved National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Goddard Space Flight Center to lead a robotic lunar mission in 2008. President Bush-inspired initiative anticipates a human return to the lunar surface by 2015, and no later than 2020.

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