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Private Space Travel? Dreamers Hope a Catalyst Will Rise From the Mojave Desert
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    Private Space Travel? Dreamers Hope a Catalyst Will Rise From the Mojave Desert

    History in the making? Perhaps. Private space flight might be closer than we think. For Burt Rutan, that day might just be today

    "The flight would also be a milestone on the way to winning the Ansari X Prize, a competition begun by a group of entrepreneurs and space enthusiasts in 1996 in hopes of spurring a private space race. Modeled on the $25,000 Orteig Prize, which inspired Charles Lindbergh's 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic, the $10 million X prize has spurred the efforts of more than two dozen teams worldwide, some of them financed by patrons like Mr. Allen and John Carmack, a founder of Id Software."

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