And the connection between Virgin Galactic and SpaceShipOne is quite strong; Virgin has flown seven commercial suborbital flights to date, all with the recently retired VSS Unity space plane.

29 and another on Oct. 4, the piloted vehicle won the $10 million Ansari X Prize for repeated flights in a privately developed, reusable spacecraft. SpaceShipOne was a space plane designed and ...

Today's successful flight puts SpaceShipOne firmly in front of the other 25 teams competing for the prize.

The second attempt by the rocketplane SpaceShipOne to soar into space and snag the $10 million Ansari X Prize is planned for Monday, officials announced last night. SpaceShipOne made the first of ...

Monday marked SpaceShipOne's third true spaceflight. In addition to last week's flight, Melvill also piloted June's first private-sector space shot and had to cope with glitches and unexpected ...

The creator of SpaceShipOne says private space flight's about to take off. At the dawn of a new era, SpaceShipOne is minutes away from being released by its launch aircraft. White Knight ...

First-Ever Commercial Space Flight a Success NPR's Alex Chadwick speaks with NPR's David Kestenbaum, reporting from the Mojave Desert site of the launch of SpaceShipOne, the first commercial space ...

MOJAVE, Calif. – 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 ...

Allen, Burt Rutan and the innovative aerospace design team in their ongoing efforts to complete the first non-government manned space ... SpaceShipOne team will announce the results of this test ...

The SpaceShipOne program is known as Tier 1 ... a vehicle capable of carrying up to 10 passengers on suborbital space flights. Under his contract with Allen, Rutan is required to deliver data ...