SpaceShipOne Readies Run at $10 Mln Prize
Tue 27 July, 2004 23:09

By Ben Berkowitz

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Reuters) - The U.S. team behind the first privately funded, manned ship to reach space on Tuesday announced a schedule for two more flights within a week of each other in a bid to win a $10-million prize intended to kick-start a commercial space race.

In a news conference at a Los Angeles airport that was launch site for the first round-the-world airplane flight 80 years ago, Burt Rutan, designer of SpaceShipOne, said his team would make its first launch on Sept. 29 for the Ansari X Prize.

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