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Blast at desert spaceport kills 3

A third person died Friday from an explosion at a rocket test pad operated by a private company in California's southern Mojave Desert, according to the nursing supervisor at Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield.

Blast at desert spaceport kills 2, injures 4

An explosion at an airport home to Scaled Composites -- the builder of the first private manned rocket to reach space -- killed two people and left four seriously hurt Thursday, a Kern County Fire Department official says.

Breaking the final frontier

Space tourism is being packaged as the ultimate trip -- almost as an extension of a normal flight but with incredible views, the experience of weightlessness and supersonic speeds.

Rocket racing: Next sports league?

It has a jet engine's roar but not the accompanying whine -- just an ear-shattering thunder. And the airplane is far too small, like a Volkswagen with a semi's air horn.

Business 2.0: Welcome to Rocketville, USA

If you want to view the entrepreneurial future of space travel, start in Los Angeles. Drive 100 miles northeast until you reach sun-baked Mojave (population 3,800). Head to the local airport. Don't...

Business 2.0: Why Space Needs You

Entrepreneurs have always driven our technical progress--and, as a result, our economy. They tend to be more innovative, more willing to take risks, and more excited about solving difficult problem...

Business 2.0: The Silicon Valley of spaceflight

If you want to view the entrepreneurial future of space travel, start in Los Angeles. Drive 100 miles northeast until you reach sun-baked Mojave (population 3,800). Head to the local airport. Don't expect to see launchpads or fancy command centers--there are none to be found. Yet history is being made here: In 2004 the Federal Aviation Administration certified Mojave Airport as a civilian spaceport. Burt Rutan's company, Scaled Composites, has its headquarters near the runways, and it was from here that his SpaceShipOne became the first private spacecraft to carry a passenger beyond the stratosphere.

White Knight carries X-37 aloft

The X-37 -- an unpiloted, reusable spaceplane -- made its first captive-carry flight today under the wings of the White Knight, flying above Mojave, California desert.

Space tourism taking shape

Ticket to ride commuter flights to the edge of space may not be too far off -- with spaceliners departing several spaceports here in the United States.

Fossett makes history

Flying from horizon to horizon, Steve Fossett completed the first solo, nonstop flight around-the-world without refueling on Thursday, landing gracefully in Kansas at 2:49 pm ET.

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