WBAL Baltimore: SpaceShipOne Fires Rocket, Earns $10 Million Prize
With former U.S. Navy test pilot Brian Binnie at the controls of a flight known as X2, SpaceShipOne reached space again Monday morning, according to X-Prize contest officials. The flight to 368,000 feet earns a team of designers led by Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft's Paul Allen a $10 million prize for being the first private company to send a manned rocket in space twice within 14 days.
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