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.

Author: Kross, John
Publisher: National Space Society
Publication Name: Ad Astra
Subject: Astronomy
ISSN: 1041-102X
Year: 2005
Product development, Guided missiles and space vehicles, Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing, Manned Space Vehicles, Rutan, Burt, Manned spacecraft

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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.

Author: Kross, John
Publisher: National Space Society
Publication Name: Ad Astra
Subject: Astronomy
ISSN: 1041-102X
Year: 2004
Government regulation, Bush, George W., Licensing, certification and accreditation, Powers and duties, Lunar probes

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