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 ...

SpaceShipOne, seen here after its first flight in June, will take to the skies again tonight (Image: Reuters/Mike Blake) Related Stories Space flight enters private era , Science Online, 22 Jun 2004 ...

She went on to call the SpaceShipOne flights "a giant leap for all of us." Making it pay Winning the X Prize should bring the first substantial payback for Allen, who has said he's invested more ...

SpaceShipOne's most recent flight on May 13, piloted by Mike Melvill, reached a height of 211,400 feet (64.4 kilometers) — higher than any private plane had gone before.

Are we witnessing the birth of a commercial space flight industry? Day to Day technology contributor Xeni Jardin reports on Wednesday's launch of SpaceShipOne. The craft is the top competitor in ...

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Day to Day technology correspondent Xeni Jardin about the second flight of SpaceShipOne, the first commercially sponsored spacecraft. With the success of the second ...

SpaceShipOne glides back to Earth after its second flight into suborbital space. Jim Campbell, Aero-News Network SpaceShipOne and a chaser plane return for landing.

The final two flights clinched the Ansari XPrize, a $10 million challenge, for SpaceShipOne's MojaveAerospace Ventures company backed by entrepreneur and billionaire Paul G.Allen.

SpaceShipOne makes successful flight. The US rocket plane SpaceShipOne has landed back in California’s Mojave desert after what organisers said was a successful flight into space.

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 days.

Burt Rutan reflects on the wake left by the pioneering SpaceShipOne flights, the winning of the Ansari X Prize, and a glimpse at the road ahead. "Our big milestone of 2004 occurred on June 21, ...

SpaceShipOne’s creators said the Komet, built by Nazi Germany but never used for a manned flight, was an inspiration for the design, Hunt said. “That is in direct lineage,” he said.