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SpaceShipOne flight away from claiming prize

(4 Oct 2004) SHOTLIST 1. Various of SpaceShipOne as it tracks down the runway 2. SpaceShipOne taking off 3. SpaceShipOne in flight - the rocket and carrier plane still joined together 4. Cutaway of crowds gathered by runway 5. Black and white shot of rocket and carrier plane separating - rocket zooming off into space STORYLINE: SpaceShipOne blasted through the Earth's atmosphere for a second time in two weeks on Monday to win the 10 million (m) US dollar Ansari prize. The space craft successfully reached an altitude of 100 kilometres (328,000 feet or 62 miles) - generally considered to be the point where the Earth's atmosphere ends and space begins. Its backers now take home 10 million US dollars after claiming the Ansari prize, awarded to the first privately built, manned rocket ship to reach space twice within two weeks. A crowd of thousands of space enthusiasts and a throng of news media gathered at Mojave Airport in California, US, in the early morning darkness to watch the flight. The stubby rocket plane was strapped to the belly of a carrier plane. Half an hour into the flight the two air crafts separated, and the rocket soared on to continue on its own to an altitude of at least 328,000 feet (99,974 meters), The St. Louis-based X Prize Foundation was 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. Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen has sunk more than 20 million US dollars into developing a manned rocket that reaches space. Now he's recouped half that sum - along with some bragging rights. Hours before Monday's scheduled takeoff, the SpaceShipOne team named a new pilot, Brian Binnie, to fly the second leg of the X Prize competition. The first leg was flown by Michael Melvill last Wednesday. Ansari X Prize founder Peter Diamandis hoped the multimillion-dollar incentive would have the same effect on space travel as the Orteig Prize had on air travel. Charles Lindbergh claimed that 25,000 US dollar prize in 1927 after making his solo trans-Atlantic flight. Major funding came from the Ansari family of Dallas. More than two dozen teams around the world are trying to win the X Prize, but only SpaceShipOne has reached space. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...