Private spaceship team picks up $10 million

Source URL: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/11/06/private.spaceship.ap/index.html
Posted at: http://www.air-attack/com/news/news_article/318

ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AP) -- The designers of the first privately manned rocket to burst into space were handed a $10 million check Saturday, a prize designed to encourage technology that will open the heavens to tourists.

SpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan accepted the Ansari X Prize money, along with a 150-pound trophy, as a chase plane flew over the ceremony in a field adjacent to the St. Louis Science Center.

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