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	Human spaceflight
		Human spaceflight is space exploration with a human crew, and possibly passengers (in contrast to unmanned space missions which are remotely-controlled or robotic space probes).
		The first human spaceflight was Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made one orbit around the earth.
		In an attempt to win the $10 million X-Prize, numerous private companies are attempting to build their own manned spacecraft capable of repeated sub-orbital flights.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/h/hu/human_spaceflight.html (349 words)

	TCS: Tech Central Station - Private Space: Blazing a Trail? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Fans of space tourism, and commercial space flight in general, were very excited at reports that Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites had been issued the first license for a manned suborbital rocket flight.
		Its founders and organizers hope that private initiative, and lean budgets coupled with clear goals, will produce more rapid progress than the government-funded programs organized by space bureaucrats over the past five decades or so.
		At the moment the program is new and relatively small, but I hope that we'll see other government agencies -- and private philanthropists -- consider the prize approach.
	www.techcentralstation.com /041404C.html (740 words)

	Private spaceflight -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The first phase of private space operation was the launch of the first commercial (An artificial satellite that relays signals back to earth; moves in a geostationary orbit) communications satellites.
		Prior to the signing of this law, all commercial satellite launches in the United States were limited to the (A reusable spacecraft with wings for a controlled descent through the Earth's atmosphere) Space Shuttle, operated by NASA.
		The only private individuals to journey to space went as (Click link for more info and facts about space tourists) space tourists on vehicles operated by the Russian Federation.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/private_spaceflight.htm (1095 words)

	Space Today Online - X Prize experimental private manned space rockets
		Test pilot Brian Binnie became the second person to pilot a privately built craft into space as he rode in SpaceShipOne on October 4, 2004, the final flight in the series of two needed to win the prize.
		To win the $10 million Ansari X Prize, a private spacecraft had to be the first to carry the weight equivalent of three people to an altitude of 62.14 miles twice within two weeks.
		The prize was awarded by the X Prize Foundation to the team that designed the first private spaceship that successfully carried the equivalent weight of three human beings to a sub-orbital altitude of 100 km (62.14 miles) on two consecutive flights within two weeks.
	www.spacetoday.org /Rockets/X_Prize.html (2270 words)

	xxx church :: the prayer wall - Peak Oil - (For People Who Like To Read!!!) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Despite the somewhat limited progress made so far in private spaceflight, at least in terms of "how high" and "how far", private spaceflight has already far surpassed government programs in terms of return on investment.
		Private investors are only skimming off the results of work done by the evil government.
		Private endeavors probably wouldn't have made space travel a priority until much later than government did, because private concerns were not fighting a war!
	www.xxxchurch.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11454&whichpage=2 (612 words)

	USATODAY.com - Monday's private spaceflight: historical milestone or stunt flying? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		A privately built rocket plane is ready to streak through the sky over Mojave, California desert on June 21.
		The role of both government and private sector in advancing aerospace technology is flagged by aviation and space historian, Thomas Crouch, Senior Curator for the National Air and Space Museum.
		The portent of private rocket ships hauling ticketed passengers to the edge of space, and eventually into Earth orbit, is another belief shored up by the succession of SpaceShipOne flights to date.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/techinnovations/2004-06-21-spaceshipone-spacecom_x.htm (1322 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - Private spaceflight gains momentum, profits
		Private firms would build the base and lease it out to the government for research.
		It's an awesome achievement in suborbital spaceflight, and it should be lauded for that and not for anything more.
		Some have long argued that the high cost of space is tied to the fact that it has been the purview of a large federal bureaucracy, not generally a good environment for cost-cutting innovation.
	www.chron.com /cs/CDA/story.es.hts/metropolitan/2839796 (1457 words)

	HobbySpace - Stairway to Space
		It is a $50M prize to be awarded to the private team that develops a manned orbital vehicle by 2010.
		A private firm lands a rover on one of the lunar poles and begins exploration for ice deposits.
		Inspired by the success of the commercial space companies and the dropping price for LEO access, several wealthy societies and private organizations of diverse ideologies and philosophies form, each with the goal of building a large scale habitat in orbit or on the Moon with hundreds of residents by 2025.
	www.hobbyspace.com /AAdmin/archive/SpecialTopics/toSpaceTimeLine.html (1925 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Private rocket ship sets altitude record
		A privately developed spacecraft rocketed a solo pilot to the edge of space on Thursday, as part of ongoing preparations for its first full space flight.
		The prize, aimed at spurring the development of private spacecraft, will be awarded to the first team to carry two people to 100km altitude twice in two weeks.
		Twenty seven private enterprises from around the world have announced plans to compete for the X-Prize, but Scaled Composites is the hot favourite as it has the most fully developed spacecraft and flight program.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn4994 (401 words)

	Private Company Plans $100 Million Tour Around the Moon - New York Times
		One day after NASA brought the shuttle Discovery back from low Earth orbit, a private company plans to announce a more audacious venture, a tourist trip around the Moon.
		"We believe private space flight and space exploration can go hand in hand, and can coexist and benefit each other," he said.
		Government, he said, should focus "on things that private companies cannot do," like exploring other planets.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/08/10/science/space/10private.html?ei=5090&en=bb93a572dea5211b&ex=1281326400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print (779 words)

	Private rocket ship has wild ride in quest for $10 million prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Ignoring a warning to abort the flight, a test pilot took a stubby-looking rocket plane on a corkscrewing, white-knuckle ride past the edge of the atmosphere Wednesday, completing the first stage of a quest to win a $10 million prize.
		The Ansari X Prize will go to the first craft to safely complete two flights to an altitude of 328,000 feet, or 62 miles -- generally considered to be the point where the Earth's atmosphere ends and space begins -- in a 14-day span.
		The St. Louis-based X Prize Foundation is offering the bounty in hopes of inspiring an era of space tourism in which spaceflight is not just the domain of government agencies such as NASA.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/09/29/national1657EDT0685.DTL (793 words)

	Private-spaceflight bill signed into law - The New Space Race - MSNBC.com
		H.R. 5382's trip through Congress to the White House was not a smooth one: The legislative language was the result of months of negotiations, and the bill didn't win final congressional passage until the final minutes of the session on Dec. 8.
		The FAA's role in suborbital spaceflight safety was a key sticking point: Under the terms of the legislation, the FAA would regulate the industry over the next eight years primarily to protect the uninvolved public and the public interest.
		The spaceflight bill went virtually unmentioned on the Senate floor, but the behind-the-scenes debate continued up to almost the last minute.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6682611 (923 words)

	HobbySpace - Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) News
		He goes on to point out several management failures such as leaving a gap in human spaceflight capability between the end of the shuttle program in 2010 and the first CEV crew flight in 2014 despite the fact that buying Soyuz rides to the ISS is prohibited.
		might not have come to support private space projects if such an event resulted in a widespread public impression that such endeavors were not only crazy but also tainted with illegality.
		Speaking of rocket companies and private development, we shouldn't forget that one startup in the past did in fact succeed in becoming a major aerospace firm.
	www.hobbyspace.com /AAdmin/archive/RLV/2005/RLVNews2005-03.html (9743 words)

	The Anniston Star - Attempt set for first private manned spaceflight
		SpaceShipOne is scheduled to be carried aloft today to be released and try to climb 62 miles high, leaving Earth's atmosphere for a few minutes to become the first privately funded, non-governmental manned spacecraft.
		White Knight, carrying the rocket plane slung under its belly, was to scheduled for a 6:30 a.m.
		To win the prize, a privately fi-nanced spacecraft capable of carrying three people must climb to 62 miles and land safely, then repeat the feat within two weeks.
	www.dailyhome.com /news/2004/as-nation-0621-0-4f20v2704.htm (678 words)

	Space exploration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		During the 20th century, with the development of adequate propulsion technologies, stronger and lighter materials andother technological and scientific breakthroughs, the idea of outer-earth missions was no longer a dream, but a viablepractice.
		From a spaceflight perspective, the definition of space usually used is that space begins 100 km (62 miles) above Earth'ssurface.
		As forsub-orbital flights, on October 3, 1942 anA4 rocket, a prototype for the German V2 rocket bomb, became the first successfullaunch of an object into space.
	www.therfcc.org /space-exploration-14095.html (294 words)

	USATODAY.com - NASA mulls cash prizes for private spaceflight milestones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In the wake of the first private, manned mission to space earlier this week, a NASA official said the federally funded space agency might offer awards for commercial spaceflight milestones.
		Lembeck said the agency is even pondering a prize of some $200 million for the first private, piloted mission to orbit Earth.
		Some of NASA's roughly $16.2 billion annual budget should be earmarked for privatizing space, the report concluded, suggesting even that Congress consider prize money for commercial spaceflight milestones.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2004-06-23-NASA-prizes_x.htm (485 words)

	Analysis: Congress restricts private space - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Most aerospace experts think such an approach would kill the private manned space-launch industry, whose technology is so experimental it is almost impossible to predict what will or will not work.
		FAA officials and some in Congress put a high priority on preventing accidents -- even those involving experimental craft -- and therefore think manned private spaceflight should operate under FAA auspices and be regulated the same way as commercial aviation.
		No one wants people to get hurt, but everyone involved in the private human spaceflight industry is aware of the risks and -- like NASA astronauts -- willing to accept them.
	www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20041209-105529-1401r.htm (1374 words)

	X PRIZE Foundation \| About the X PRIZE Foundation
		Private astronauts flew not once but three times.
		A wave of optimism has begun to spread about the prospects for low-cost spaceflight now that a new class of private operators is emerging.
		Friends, we have started a private spaceflight revolution, the end of which will result in nothing less than routine human spaceflights to the cosmos.
	www.xprizefoundation.com /about_us (328 words)

	Space Adventures — Spaceflight Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Spaceflight Club will serve as the unifying voice of the next generation of space explorers and a catalyst for the private space industry.
		Through your membership, the Spaceflight Club will provide you with the tools, experience, training, and education you need to realize your goal of flying to space in your lifetime.
		Be a part of history as you participate in the beginning of the private spaceflight industry and inspire future generations of explorers.
	www.spaceadventures.com /flight/spaceflightclub (353 words)

	"First" Private Manned Spaceflight A Success
		Since we've been visiting space for more than 40 years it's almost hard to believe that this kind of "first" was still open.
		The 62-year-old test pilot rode Scaled Composites' rocket plane SpaceShipOne to an altitude of 40 miles (211,400 feet) after being dropped from its mother ship, the White Knight, over the high desert just east of Los Angeles.
		The goal of the X PRIZE is to promote safe and reliable private space flights to create a space tourism industry in the next 15 years.
	www.avweb.com /newswire/10_21a/briefs/187306-1.html (161 words)

	CNN.com - Private craft soars into space, history - Jun 23, 2004
		The first privately funded spacecraft lifts off from an airstrip in the Mojave Desert.
		Peter Diamandis, co-founder of the X Prize, the $10 million award intended to spur civilian spaceflight, said Rutan's vision would open the door for those with the same dream.
		Scaled Composites is one of 24 companies from several countries competing for the X Prize, which will go to the first privately funded group to send three people on a suborbital flight 62.5 miles high and repeat the feat within two weeks using the same vehicle.
	www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/space/06/21/suborbital.test (1114 words)

	You Must Be Present to Win: Regulating Private Spaceflight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Today he sent me a pointer to a critical analysis of the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004, which can be found in full text at the GPO.
		And this approach would assume that consumers are particularly savvy judges of risk, which flies in the face of the vast bulk of the research on the subject.
		This, by the way, is the sort of regulation that I think is long overdue in the software industry: while we recognize that there are endlessly new and inventive ways in which we can make software vulnerable to worms, once we know what one is, let's stop doing it.
	www.salguod.com /blog/archives/2004/12/regulating_priv.html (860 words)

	KOMO : First Private Manned Spaceflight Attempt Set
		The prize will award $10 million to the first privately funded, three-seat spaceship to reach 62 miles and repeat the flight within two weeks.
		If the mission is successful, Rutan will then enter his rocket plane in the X-Prize competition, which includes more than 20 other teams from around the world.
		An unusual entrepreneurial aviation brain trust developed the craft in secret at the airfield and without the vast overhead of the national programs responsible for all previous manned spaceflights.
	www.komotv.com /news/printstory.asp?id=31795 (910 words)

	Discovery Channel :: News :: Private Spaceflight Gets NASA Boost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		10, 2005 — The fledging personal spaceflight industry got a boost from a seasoned partner on Sunday as NASA pledged funding for another round of private suborbital space ventures during an exhibition focused on passenger spaceships for non-astronauts.
		NASA plans to work with the X Prize Foundation, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based nonprofit agency that organized the $10-million Ansari X Prize, which was awarded last year for the first pair of suborbital spaceflights aboard a privately funded, piloted reusable vehicle.
		The foundation hopes to parlay the X Prize into an annual exhibition of private spaceflight called the X Prize Cup.
	dsc.discovery.com /news/briefs/20051010/xprize.html (349 words)

	Emergent Chaos: Regulating Private Spaceflight
		There is a clear basis for regulation of objects that, with great force, fling themselves into the sky and have an opportunity to subsequently land on random people and property.
		Even from a purely selfish point of view, it's not going to be good for the development of a commercial spaceflight industry if rocket parts periodically rain down on inhabited areas.
		A responsible industry participant would take great care to make sure this didn't happen, but wouldn't be able to restrain the less responsible participants, who would ruin it for everyone.
	www.emergentchaos.com /archives/000707.html (628 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Date set for private space launch
		The first private manned spacecraft will be launched into space on 21 June carrying an as yet unnamed astronaut.
		Burt Rutan's company Scaled Composites became the first non-governmental body to be granted a licence for a space launch when the US Federal Aviation Administration gave it one on 1 April.
		The X-prize will mark a new era in manned spaceflight when private companies are able to make short sub-orbital hops for paying customers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/3770919.stm (471 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Private spaceflight closer to reality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Hoping to build on the momentum sparked by a private rocket plane's dash into space, supporters of opening the heavens to civilians are turning the winner-take-all race into an annual competition that might further fuel imaginations.
		MOJAVE, Calif. -- Hoping to build on the momentum sparked by a private rocket plane's dash into space, supporters of opening the heavens to civilians are turning the winner-take-all race into an annual competition that might further fuel imaginations.
		The privately owned SpaceShipOne won the $10 million Ansari X Prize on Monday by blasting into space for the second time in five days, a feat considered the first stepping-stone in the direction of public spaceflight.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/10/05/annual_competition_for_public_space_flight (641 words)

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